How many copies did Riichi City - Japanese Mahjong sell?

121k to 197k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Riichi City - Japanese Mahjong make?

Riichi City - Japanese Mahjong is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Riichi City - Japanese Mahjong?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 121k–197k; from 5k 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 Riichi City - Japanese Mahjong and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Riichi City - Japanese Mahjong's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.8M–7.5M

best case 40.7M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Riichi City - Japanese Mahjong

A typical game among these

≈ 3.8M–7.5M copies

≈ $4.7M–$12.2M after Steam's cut

from ~128k 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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 31.0M–50.3M copies, ≈ $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (6 of 8) and Sexual Content (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Utilities + Software + Design & Illustration; a typical game here doesn't.
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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