How much revenue did Nine Treasures of Liuyin make?

$38k–$102k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nine Treasures of Liuyin sell?

Q: How many copies did Nine Treasures of Liuyin sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 292 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $38k–$102k after Steam's cut $69k–$156k before Steam's cut; from 292 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 Nine Treasures of Liuyin and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nine Treasures of Liuyin's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 435k–895k

best case 39.5M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Nine Treasures of Liuyin

A typical game among these

≈ 435k–895k copies

≈ $4.2M–$13.6M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.1M–48.9M copies, ≈ $496.2M–$1334.2M 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 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (6 of 8) and Souls-like (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Mythology + Singleplayer + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 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 79 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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