How much revenue did Love, Ghostie make?

$90k–$243k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Love, Ghostie sell?

Q: How many copies did Love, Ghostie sell?

16k to 27k copies, based on its 662 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–27k; $90k–$243k after Steam's cut $164k–$373k before Steam's cut; from 662 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 Love, Ghostie and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Love, Ghostie's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 77k–178k

best case 1.3M (Tricolour Lovestory)

Games like Love, Ghostie

A typical game among these

≈ 77k–178k copies

≈ $305k–$1.1M 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.

Best case: Tricolour Lovestory at ≈ 966k–1.6M copies, ≈ $529k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

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 659 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Dating Sim, priced around $2.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, 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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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