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How many copies did Kittengumi: The Sakabato's Thief sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 397–645
$1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut
from 16 reviews (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 Kittengumi: The Sakabato's Thief and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kittengumi: The Sakabato's Thief's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.8M
best case 5.7M (Everlasting Summer)
Games like Kittengumi: The Sakabato's Thief

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–1.8M copies

≈ $14.5M–$17.0M after Steam's cut

from ~30k 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.

Best case: Everlasting Summer at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Anime (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Story Rich. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Mature + Choices Matter; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 to 2020, 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 70 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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