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How many copies did Tales from Toyotoki: Arrival of the Witch (The witch of the Ihanashi) sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 23k–38k
$161k–$434k after Steam's cut $293k–$667k before Steam's cut
from 947 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Tales from Toyotoki: Arrival of the Witch (The witch of the Ihanashi) and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tales from Toyotoki: Arrival of the Witch (The witch of the Ihanashi)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 586k–2.2M
best case 4.6M (Persona 5 Royal)
Games like Tales from Toyotoki: Arrival of the Witch (The witch of the Ihanashi)

A typical game among these

≈ 586k–2.2M copies

≈ $1.6M–$33.8M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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: Persona 5 Royal at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $57.7M–$155.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 163 to 14k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $60.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 to 2024, 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 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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