How much revenue did FINAL FANTASY V (Old ver.) make?

FINAL FANTASY V (Old ver.) is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did FINAL FANTASY V (Old ver.) sell?

Q: How many copies did FINAL FANTASY V (Old ver.) sell?

71k to 115k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 71k–115k; from 1k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left FINAL FANTASY V (Old ver.) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FINAL FANTASY V (Old ver.)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 87k–157k

best case 163k (FINAL FANTASY VI)

Games like FINAL FANTASY V (Old ver.)

The middle of these games

≈ 87k–157k copies

≈ $676k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: FINAL FANTASY VI at ≈ 124k–202k copies, ≈ $614k–$1.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 678 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 407 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on JRPG (8 of 8) and Fantasy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Class-Based, priced around $18.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 2 of your 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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