How much revenue did The Paracelsian Project make?

$375–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Paracelsian Project sell?

Q: How many copies did The Paracelsian Project sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $375–$1k after Steam's cut $681–$2k before Steam's cut; from 11 reviews (Mostly 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 The Paracelsian Project and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Paracelsian Project's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 295k–348k

best case 1.3M (The Coffin of Andy and Leyley)

Games like The Paracelsian Project

A typical game among these

≈ 295k–348k copies

≈ $930k–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: The Coffin of Andy and Leyley at ≈ 982k–1.6M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 527 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Multiple Endings (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Multiple Endings, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Choices Matter + Psychological + Dark Comedy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 2 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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The Coffin of Andy and Leyley 2023	Est. copies ≈ 982k–1.6M 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.4M before Steam's cut	$11.99	40k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PsychologicalDark Comedy
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