How much revenue did Epic Battle Fantasy 5 make?

$1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Epic Battle Fantasy 5 sell?

Q: How many copies did Epic Battle Fantasy 5 sell?

187k to 304k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 187k–304k; $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before Steam's cut; from 6k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Epic Battle Fantasy 5 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Epic Battle Fantasy 5's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 475k–896k

best case 5.4M (South Park™: The Stick of Truth™)

Games like Epic Battle Fantasy 5

A typical game among these

≈ 475k–896k copies

≈ $5.5M–$15.4M 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.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $34.0M–$91.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Combat (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Comedy + Turn-Based, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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