How many copies did Carpe Diem sell?

418k to 679k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Carpe Diem make?

Carpe Diem is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Carpe Diem?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 418k–679k; from 9k 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 Carpe Diem and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Carpe Diem's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 105k–2.0M

best case 5.7M (Everlasting Summer)

Games like Carpe Diem

A typical game among these

≈ 105k–2.0M copies

≈ $42k–$12.4M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Story Rich.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2021, 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 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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