How much revenue did Tales of Seikyu make?

$452k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tales of Seikyu sell?

Q: How many copies did Tales of Seikyu sell?

66k to 107k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 66k–107k; $452k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $822k–$1.9M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Tales of Seikyu and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tales of Seikyu's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 702k–4.2M

best case 10.8M (Monster Hunter Wilds)

Games like Tales of Seikyu

A typical game among these

≈ 702k–4.2M copies

≈ $1.1M–$22.7M after Steam's cut

from ~49k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 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: Monster Hunter Wilds at ≈ 8.2M–13.4M copies, ≈ $90.5M–$243.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 951 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 183k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (4 of 8) and Romance (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hunting + Co-op, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, and 2 of the 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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The Sims™ 4 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.1M 4.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	201k reviews Very Positive	Life SimCharacter Customization
Volcano Princess 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut $6.7M–$15.3M before Steam's cut	$10.99	49k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Life SimMultiple Endings
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