How much revenue did Kemotaku make?

$765–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kemotaku sell?

Q: How many copies did Kemotaku sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $765–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Kemotaku and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kemotaku's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29k–58k

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Kemotaku

A typical game among these

≈ 29k–58k copies

≈ $138k–$262k after Steam's cut

from ~945 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.3M–$54.6M 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 349 reviews in their first month; the range was 130 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (8 of 8) and Card Battler (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Horror + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 1 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 70 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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