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How many copies did Please Leave Me Alone, I Need to Poop sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 967–2k
$1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut
from 39 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 Please Leave Me Alone, I Need to Poop and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Please Leave Me Alone, I Need to Poop's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–1.2M
best case 2.1M (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc)
Games like Please Leave Me Alone, I Need to Poop

A typical game among these

≈ 27k–1.2M copies

≈ $103k–$14.5M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $8.9M–$24.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 196 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Anime (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Anime + Visual Novel, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 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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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
2016
Est. copies
≈ 1.4M–2.2M
5.1x vs typical
SteamSpy 500k–1M
Est. revenue
$7.5M–$20.3M after Steam's cut $13.7M–$31.2M before Steam's cut
$19.99
33k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
AnimeDetective
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
2016
Est. copies
≈ 1.6M–2.6M
6.0x vs typical
SteamSpy 1M–2M
Est. revenue
$8.9M–$24.0M after Steam's cut $16.2M–$36.9M before Steam's cut
$19.99
39k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
2017
Est. copies
≈ 806k–1.3M
3.6x vs typical
SteamSpy 1M–2M
Est. revenue
$8.9M–$23.8M after Steam's cut $16.1M–$36.7M before Steam's cut
$39.99
23k reviews
Very Positive
Visual NovelDetective
Kraken Academy!!
2021
Est. copies
≈ 27k–43k
SteamSpy 20k–50k
Est. revenue
$73k–$197k after Steam's cut $133k–$303k before Steam's cut
$9.99
1k reviews
Very Positive
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The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-
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Est. copies
≈ 216k–351k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$4.2M–$11.2M after Steam's cut $7.6M–$17.2M before Steam's cut
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Impasse Journey ~ Kaohsiung Chapter ~
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Est. copies
≈ 1k–2k
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut
$10.99
42 reviews
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AdventureInteractive Fiction
HENPRI
2025
Est. copies
≈ 105k–170k
SteamSpy 20k–50k
Est. revenue
$719k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut
$24.99
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Overwhelmingly Positive
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The Shadow You
2021
Est. copies
≈ 1k–2k
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut
$9.99
46 reviews
Positive
AnimeVisual Novel

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