How much revenue did Battle Girls make?

$9k–$23k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Battle Girls sell?

Q: How many copies did Battle Girls sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 92 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $9k–$23k after Steam's cut $16k–$36k before Steam's cut; from 92 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 Battle Girls and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Battle Girls's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 913k–2.5M

best case 7.3M (鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal)

Games like Battle Girls

A typical game among these

≈ 913k–2.5M copies

≈ $6.0M–$29.5M 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: 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $30.6M–$82.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 922 to 208k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dating Sim (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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