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How many copies did Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 9k–14k
$12k–$32k after Steam's cut $22k–$49k before Steam's cut
from 154 reviews (Mixed)

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 Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 201k–243k
best case 668k (Her Story)
Games like Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches

A typical game among these

≈ 201k–243k copies

≈ $907k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Her Story at ≈ 509k–827k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 761 reviews in their first month; the range was 170 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Choose Your Own Adventure (7 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Investigation + Typing, priced around $10.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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