How much revenue did Techno Banter make?

$16k–$44k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Techno Banter sell?

Q: How many copies did Techno Banter sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 134 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $16k–$44k after Steam's cut $30k–$68k before Steam's cut; from 134 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 Techno Banter and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Techno Banter's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–7k

best case 311k (The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles)

Games like Techno Banter

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–7k copies

≈ $11k–$22k after Steam's cut

from ~161 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles at ≈ 237k–385k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.0M 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 58 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 875.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Choices Matter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $13.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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