How much revenue did Homicipher make?

$755k–$2.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Homicipher sell?

Q: How many copies did Homicipher sell?

196k to 319k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 196k–319k; $755k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M before the cut; from 8k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Homicipher out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Homicipher's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–101k

best case 267k (Amnesia™: Memories)

The Anime genre

6 of your 8 similar games are hits. A niche genre: plan for a small audience.

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

A typical game

≈ 64k–101k copies

≈ $360k–$586k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Best case

≈ 203k–330k copies

Amnesia™: Memories · ≈ $558k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (7 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Otome + Visual Novel, priced around $10.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count.

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