How much revenue did ADEN make?

$43k–$116k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ADEN sell?

Q: How many copies did ADEN sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 702 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $43k–$116k after Steam's cut $78k–$178k before Steam's cut; from 702 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 ADEN and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ADEN's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 111k–1.8M

best case 10.3M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like ADEN

A typical game among these

≈ 111k–1.8M copies

≈ $221k–$9.0M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Doki Doki Literature Club! 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.9M–12.8M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	229k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Visual Novel
Soda Drinker Pro 2016	Est. copies ≈ 33k–53k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $45k–$121k after Steam's cut $82k–$186k before Steam's cut	$4.99	787 reviews Very Positive	Psychological Horror Simulation
Psychopomp GOLD 2024	Est. copies ≈ 134k–218k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $332k–$892k after Steam's cut $603k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$8.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological HorrorSurreal
Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo 2016	Est. copies ≈ 102k–165k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror2D
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.2M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.5M–$20.3M after Steam's cut $13.7M–$31.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeDetective
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.4M 4.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut $11.6M–$26.3M before Steam's cut	$15.99	58k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorAnime
Umfend 2018	Est. copies ≈ 21k–35k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $59k–$158k after Steam's cut $107k–$243k before Steam's cut	$9.99	704 reviews Very Positive	IndieAdventure
The NOexistenceN of you AND me 2024	Est. copies ≈ 553k–898k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $303k–$813k after Steam's cut $550k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$1.99	22k reviews Very Positive	Visual Novel Psychological Horror