How much revenue did Taoist priest Yan make?

$782–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Taoist priest Yan sell?

Q: How many copies did Taoist priest Yan sell?

570 to 927 copies, based on its 23 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 570–927; $782–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 23 reviews (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 Taoist priest Yan and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Taoist priest Yan's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 106–830

best case 2.1M (CONTROL Ultimate Edition)

Games like Taoist priest Yan

A typical game among these

≈ 106–830 copies

≈ $177–$1k after Steam's cut

from ~5 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: CONTROL Ultimate Edition at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $17.7M–$47.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 5k reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (5 of 8) and Souls-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Supernatural + Story Rich, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Supernatural + Singleplayer + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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