How much revenue did YOKAIWARE make?

$612–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did YOKAIWARE sell?

Q: How many copies did YOKAIWARE sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $612–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 18 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 YOKAIWARE and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including YOKAIWARE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 78k–183k

best case 406k (Pixel Strike 3D)

Games like YOKAIWARE

A typical game among these

≈ 78k–183k copies

≈ $555k–$901k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Minigames (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Pixel Strike 3D at ≈ 310k–503k copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 263 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Minigames (3 of 8) and Arcade (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Combat Racing + Racing, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2025, and 2 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
FlatOut 2007	Est. copies ≈ 423k–688k 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $872k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$7.49	7k reviews Very Positive	Combat RacingRacing
UFO 50 2024	Est. copies ≈ 186k–303k 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	IndiePixel Graphics
Pixel Strike 3D 2020	Est. copies ≈ 310k–503k 5.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayFPS
Trials Evolution: Gold Edition 2013	Est. copies ≈ 154k–251k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $848k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	RacingAction
GigaBash 2022	Est. copies ≈ 54k–87k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $368k–$990k after Steam's cut $669k–$1.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	2k reviews Very Positive	SuperheroAction
pureya 2021	Est. copies ≈ 61k–99k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $100k–$270k after Steam's cut $182k–$415k before Steam's cut	$5.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MinigamesArcade
Rayman Raving Rabbids™ 2008	Est. copies ≈ 134k–218k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $369k–$992k after Steam's cut $671k–$1.5M before Steam's cut	$9.99	2k reviews Very Positive	ActionFunny
Rift of the NecroDancer 2025	Est. copies ≈ 156k–254k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $859k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Very Positive	RhythmMinigames