How much revenue did Misericorde: Volume One make?

$34k–$92k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Misericorde: Volume One sell?

Q: How many copies did Misericorde: Volume One sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 559 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $34k–$92k after Steam's cut $62k–$142k before Steam's cut; from 559 reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Misericorde: Volume One and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Misericorde: Volume One's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–18k

best case 25k (Daemonologie)

Games like Misericorde: Volume One

A typical game among these

≈ 9k–18k copies

≈ $31k–$61k after Steam's cut

from ~363 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Daemonologie at ≈ 19k–31k copies, ≈ $16k–$42k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 96 reviews in their first month; the range was 32 to 464.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (6 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Choices Matter, priced around $3.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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