How much revenue did First Cut: Samurai Duel make?

$126k–$339k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did First Cut: Samurai Duel sell?

Q: How many copies did First Cut: Samurai Duel sell?

51k to 83k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 51k–83k; $126k–$339k after Steam's cut $229k–$521k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left First Cut: Samurai Duel out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including First Cut: Samurai Duel's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 66k–162k

best case 485k (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge)

Games like First Cut: Samurai Duel

The middle of these games

≈ 66k–162k copies

≈ $635k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge at ≈ 369k–600k copies, ≈ $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 948 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 343 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Side Scroller (7 of 8) and Beat 'em up (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beat 'em up + Side Scroller, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 2 of your 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 38 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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