How much revenue did Waifu Crush make?

$570–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Waifu Crush sell?

Q: How many copies did Waifu Crush sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 42 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $570–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 42 reviews (Mixed)

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 Waifu Crush and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Waifu Crush's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 545–11k

best case 32k (Staffer Reborn)

Games like Waifu Crush

A typical game among these

≈ 545–11k copies

≈ $3k–$19k after Steam's cut

from ~28 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: Staffer Reborn at ≈ 25k–40k copies, ≈ $34k–$91k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 255 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 Puzzle (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Investigation + Story Rich, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 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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