How much revenue did STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R make?

$1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R sell?

Q: How many copies did STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R sell?

100k to 162k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 100k–162k; $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Very 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 STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 696k–996k

best case 2.9M (OMORI)

Games like STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R

A typical game among these

≈ 696k–996k copies

≈ $2.7M–$6.2M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: OMORI at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.6M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 555 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Psychological Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Multiple Endings + RPGMaker; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2021, 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 31 for the most recent game here to about 70 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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