How much revenue did Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia make?

$85k–$228k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia sell?

Q: How many copies did Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia sell?

31k to 50k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–50k; $85k–$228k after Steam's cut $154k–$351k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 52k–61k

best case 62k (The Bard's Tale Trilogy)

Games like Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia

A typical game among these

≈ 52k–61k copies

≈ $395k–$724k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: The Bard's Tale Trilogy at ≈ 47k–77k copies, ≈ $196k–$526k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and Fantasy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Classic, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, 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 79 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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Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk 2018	Est. copies ≈ 45k–72k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $612k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$49.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Dungeon CrawlerRPG
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