How much revenue did 浮生箓 Floating Life make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 浮生箓 Floating Life sell?

Q: How many copies did 浮生箓 Floating Life sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 149 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 149 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 浮生箓 Floating Life and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 浮生箓 Floating Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–82k

best case 120k (风信楼)

Games like 浮生箓 Floating Life

A typical game among these

≈ 23k–82k copies

≈ $104k–$414k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 风信楼 at ≈ 91k–148k copies, ≈ $301k–$809k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 397 reviews in their first month; the range was 170 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Word Game (7 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Multiple Endings + Choices Matter, priced around $12.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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