How much revenue did Purrfect Date - Visual Novel/Dating Simulator make?

$45k–$120k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Purrfect Date - Visual Novel/Dating Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Purrfect Date - Visual Novel/Dating Simulator sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 471 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $45k–$120k after Steam's cut $81k–$184k before Steam's cut; from 471 reviews (Mixed)

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 Purrfect Date - Visual Novel/Dating Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Purrfect Date - Visual Novel/Dating Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.5M–3.5M

best case 57.1M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Purrfect Date - Visual Novel/Dating Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 2.5M–3.5M copies

≈ $14.6M–$37.1M after Steam's cut

from ~78k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Anime (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M copies, ≈ $179.4M–$482.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (4 of 8) and Mature (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, 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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