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How many copies did Yet Another Killing Game sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 6k–10k
$30k–$80k after Steam's cut $54k–$123k before Steam's cut
from 257 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 Yet Another Killing Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Yet Another Killing Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.0M
best case 5.7M (Everlasting Summer)
Games like Yet Another Killing Game

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–2.0M copies

≈ $14.5M–$17.0M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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: Everlasting Summer at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Story Rich.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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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