How much revenue did Revue Starlight El Dorado make?

$204k–$549k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Revue Starlight El Dorado sell?

Q: How many copies did Revue Starlight El Dorado sell?

25k to 40k copies, based on its 999 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–40k; $204k–$549k after Steam's cut $372k–$845k before Steam's cut; from 999 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Revue Starlight El Dorado and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Revue Starlight El Dorado's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 275k–455k

best case 1.7M (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy)

Games like Revue Starlight El Dorado

A typical game among these

≈ 275k–455k copies

≈ $1.6M–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 800 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (7 of 8) and LGBTQ+ (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Story Rich, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Cyberpunk + Story Rich + Dystopian ; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, 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 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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