How much revenue did The Reluctant Redemption of Verity Lux make?

$956–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Reluctant Redemption of Verity Lux sell?

Q: How many copies did The Reluctant Redemption of Verity Lux sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $956–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Reluctant Redemption of Verity Lux and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Reluctant Redemption of Verity Lux's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–128k

best case 581k (Sanfu)

Games like The Reluctant Redemption of Verity Lux

A typical game among these

≈ 39k–128k copies

≈ $239k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Sanfu at ≈ 443k–720k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 564 reviews in their first month; the range was 136 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (6 of 8) and Mystery (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mystery + Drama, priced around $11.
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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