How much revenue did SAMURAI CHALLENGE make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SAMURAI CHALLENGE sell?

Q: How many copies did SAMURAI CHALLENGE sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Only 9 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 86k–193k

best case 278k (Hellish Quart)

Games like SAMURAI CHALLENGE

A typical game among these

≈ 86k–193k copies

≈ $827k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hellish Quart at ≈ 212k–344k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 15 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 2k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (7 of 8) and Arcade (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + Swordplay, priced around $18.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 1 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 36 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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