How much revenue did Among the Heavens make?

$12k–$33k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Among the Heavens sell?

Q: How many copies did Among the Heavens sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 308 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $12k–$33k after Steam's cut $22k–$51k before Steam's cut; from 308 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 Among the Heavens and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Among the Heavens's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 655k–868k

best case 1.1M (Touhou Mystia's Izakaya)

Games like Among the Heavens

A typical game among these

≈ 655k–868k copies

≈ $3.9M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: Touhou Mystia's Izakaya at ≈ 815k–1.3M copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (6 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Time Management, priced around $6. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + RPG + Faith; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 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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