How much revenue did Highway Blossoms make?

$409k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Highway Blossoms sell?

Q: How many copies did Highway Blossoms sell?

115k to 186k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 115k–186k; $409k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $744k–$1.7M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Highway Blossoms and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Highway Blossoms's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 586–2k

best case 9k (National Park Girls: Love Our Parks Edition)

Games like Highway Blossoms

A typical game among these

≈ 586–2k copies

≈ $1k–$11k after Steam's cut

from ~28 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: National Park Girls: Love Our Parks Edition at ≈ 7k–11k copies, ≈ $39k–$104k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 22.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (8 of 8) and LGBTQ+ (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Anime, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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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