How much revenue did Kanna Maze make?

$11k–$29k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kanna Maze sell?

Q: How many copies did Kanna Maze sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 394 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $11k–$29k after Steam's cut $19k–$44k before Steam's cut; from 394 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 Kanna Maze and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kanna Maze's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 125k–208k

best case 2.0M (The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty)

Games like Kanna Maze

A typical game among these

≈ 125k–208k copies

≈ $349k–$897k after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.0M 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 714 reviews in their first month; the range was 113 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Interactive Fiction (7 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Historical, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Historical + Cooking + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 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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