How much revenue did Like a Dragon: Ishin! make?

$1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Like a Dragon: Ishin! sell?

Q: How many copies did Like a Dragon: Ishin! sell?

160k to 260k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 160k–260k; $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.3M before Steam's cut; from 6k reviews (Very 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 Like a Dragon: Ishin! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Like a Dragon: Ishin!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 436k–882k

best case 1.7M (FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE)

Games like Like a Dragon: Ishin!

A typical game among these

≈ 436k–882k copies

≈ $9.7M–$21.6M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $14.5M–$39.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (7 of 8) and Action RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + JRPG, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 61 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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