How much revenue did Minami Lane make?

$228k–$612k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Minami Lane sell?

Q: How many copies did Minami Lane sell?

166k to 270k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 166k–270k; $228k–$612k after Steam's cut $414k–$942k before the cut; from 7k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Minami Lane out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Minami Lane's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 980k–1.3M

best case 56.6M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Minami Lane

The middle of these games

≈ 980k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.9M–$11.0M after Steam's cut

from ~32k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.2M–70.1M copies, ≈ $177.9M–$478.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 953 to 30k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Life Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Simulation, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Life Sim + Character Customization + Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 2 of your 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 52 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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