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How many copies did Super Cane Magic ZERO - Legend of the Cane Cane sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 14k–22k
$76k–$204k after Steam's cut $138k–$314k before Steam's cut
from 480 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 Super Cane Magic ZERO - Legend of the Cane Cane and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Super Cane Magic ZERO - Legend of the Cane Cane's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.8M–14.8M
best case 24.1M (DARK SOULS™ III)
Games like Super Cane Magic ZERO - Legend of the Cane Cane

A typical game among these

≈ 2.8M–14.8M copies

≈ $19.8M–$157.8M after Steam's cut

from ~110k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: DARK SOULS™ III at ≈ 18.3M–29.8M copies, ≈ $302.7M–$813.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Co-op (4 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $60.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 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 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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