How much revenue did QUIET DAN make?

$21k–$55k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did QUIET DAN sell?

Q: How many copies did QUIET DAN sell?

38k to 61k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 38k–61k; $21k–$55k after Steam's cut $37k–$85k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 QUIET DAN and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including QUIET DAN's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–2.4M

best case 5.7M (Everlasting Summer)

Games like QUIET DAN

A typical game among these

≈ 26k–2.4M copies

≈ $150k–$17.9M after Steam's cut

from ~21k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Everlasting Summer at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 127 reviews in their first month; the range was 21 to 408.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Story Rich.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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