How much revenue did Kanji Drive make?

$530–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kanji Drive sell?

Q: How many copies did Kanji Drive sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $530–$1k after Steam's cut $964–$2k before Steam's cut; from 13 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 Kanji Drive and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kanji Drive's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 688k–1.8M

best case 2.0M (HuniePop)

Games like Kanji Drive

A typical game among these

≈ 688k–1.8M copies

≈ $2.0M–$7.8M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Anime (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: HuniePop at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (4 of 8) and Dating Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Nudity + Mature, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2018, and none of them 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 38 for the most recent game here to about 79 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
NEKOPARA Vol. 1 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.5M before Steam's cut	$9.99	27k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HentaiAnime
NEKOPARA Vol. 3 2017	Est. copies ≈ 414k–672k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.7M before Steam's cut	$9.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HentaiSexual Content
HuniePop 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	32k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	NudityMature
Garfield Kart 2015	Est. copies ≈ 691k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $948k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Cult ClassicCombat Racing
Chinese Parents 2018	Est. copies ≈ 823k–1.3M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	27k reviews Very Positive	Life SimPsychological Horror
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad 2015	Est. copies ≈ 490k–796k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $133k–$358k after Steam's cut $242k–$551k before Steam's cut	$0.99	10k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Arcade2D
NEKOPARA Vol. 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 535k–870k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeSexual Content
Victoria II 2010	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.2M–$19.5M after Steam's cut $13.2M–$29.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	21k reviews Very Positive	Grand StrategyStrategy