How much revenue did Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin sell?

Q: How many copies did Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 148 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before Steam's cut; from 148 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 Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 641k–845k

best case 821k (Summer Memories)

Games like Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin

A typical game among these

≈ 641k–845k copies

≈ $905k–$4.7M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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.

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: Summer Memories at ≈ 625k–1.0M copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 555 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (4 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sexual Content + Nudity, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2022, 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Rabi-Ribi 2016	Est. copies ≈ 511k–830k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut $4.6M–$10.4M before Steam's cut	$17.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeMetroidvania
The Test 2020	Est. copies ≈ 499k–810k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $273k–$734k after Steam's cut $496k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$1.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choose Your Own AdventureSimulation
Eternal Senia 2015	Est. copies ≈ 589k–957k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeFree to Play
Outcore: Desktop Adventure 2022	Est. copies ≈ 457k–743k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	18k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventurePsychological Horror
Summer Memories 2020	Est. copies ≈ 625k–1.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut $6.3M–$14.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	25k reviews Very Positive	Sexual ContentNudity
Sakura Clicker 2015	Est. copies ≈ 698k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	14k reviews Very Positive	NudityFree to Play
Finding Paradise 2017	Est. copies ≈ 702k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichEmotional
Tales of the Black Forest 2019	Est. copies ≈ 447k–726k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $491k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $892k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$3.99	16k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RPGRPGMaker