How much revenue did The Butterfly Collector make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Butterfly Collector sell?

Q: How many copies did The Butterfly Collector sell?

24k to 39k copies, based on its 962 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–39k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut; from 962 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 The Butterfly Collector and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Butterfly Collector's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–109k

best case 271k (Homicipher)

Games like The Butterfly Collector

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–109k copies

≈ $76k–$504k after Steam's cut

from ~930 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: Homicipher at ≈ 207k–336k copies, ≈ $796k–$2.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 295 reviews in their first month; the range was 149 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Word Game (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Otome, priced around $14.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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