How much revenue did This Curse Is Metal as Hell! | Kusodeka Bayashi make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did This Curse Is Metal as Hell! | Kusodeka Bayashi sell?

Q: How many copies did This Curse Is Metal as Hell! | Kusodeka Bayashi sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 153 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut; from 153 reviews (Very 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 This Curse Is Metal as Hell! | Kusodeka Bayashi out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including This Curse Is Metal as Hell! | Kusodeka Bayashi's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.2M–7.4M

best case 51.0M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like This Curse Is Metal as Hell! | Kusodeka Bayashi

The middle of these games

≈ 3.2M–7.4M copies

≈ $22.5M–$77.3M after Steam's cut

from ~127k 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: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 38.8M–63.1M copies, ≈ $213.5M–$574.0M 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 42k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 68k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Survival Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Team-Based + Online Co-Op + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared 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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