How much revenue did John Christian 2 make?

$428–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did John Christian 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did John Christian 2 sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $428–$1k after Steam's cut $779–$2k before Steam's cut; from 21 reviews (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 John Christian 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including John Christian 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 154k–398k

best case 639k (Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles)

Games like John Christian 2

A typical game among these

≈ 154k–398k copies

≈ $4.0M–$8.0M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles at ≈ 487k–791k copies, ≈ $8.0M–$21.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 5k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (7 of 8) and 3D Fighter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + 3D Fighter, priced around $60.
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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