How much revenue did Class of '09: The Flip Side make?

$239k–$644k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Class of '09: The Flip Side sell?

Q: How many copies did Class of '09: The Flip Side sell?

87k to 142k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 87k–142k; $239k–$644k after Steam's cut $435k–$991k before the cut; from 4k reviews (Mixed)

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 Class of '09: The Flip Side out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Class of '09: The Flip Side's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 118k–1.2M

best case 2.1M (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc)

Games like Class of '09: The Flip Side

The middle of these games

≈ 118k–1.2M copies

≈ $789k–$14.4M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $8.8M–$23.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 55 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (5 of 8) and Detective (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Visual Novel, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 1 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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