How much revenue did Vampires' Melody 2 make?

$28k–$75k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vampires' Melody 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Vampires' Melody 2 sell?

26k to 41k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26k–41k; $28k–$75k after Steam's cut $51k–$116k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Vampires' Melody 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vampires' Melody 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–129k

best case 315k (Aliya: Timelink)

Games like Vampires' Melody 2

A typical game among these

≈ 21k–129k copies

≈ $209k–$404k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Aliya: Timelink at ≈ 240k–390k copies, ≈ $197k–$530k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 277 reviews in their first month; the range was 92 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Interactive Fiction (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + Visual Novel, priced around $3.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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