How much revenue did Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim make?

$10k–$27k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim sell?

Q: How many copies did Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 150 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $19k–$42k before Steam's cut; from 150 reviews (Mostly 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 Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.4M

best case 6.5M (The Sims™ 4)

Games like Kaichu - The Kaiju Dating Sim

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–1.4M copies

≈ $2.2M–$7.4M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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: The Sims™ 4 at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M 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 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 951 to 34k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Romance (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Character Customization. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Sandbox + Character Customization; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2026, 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 43 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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