How much revenue did PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness make?

$34k–$92k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness sell?

Q: How many copies did PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 180 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $34k–$92k after Steam's cut $62k–$141k before Steam's cut; from 180 reviews (Mostly 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 PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–248k

best case 2.1M (VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action)

Games like PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness

A typical game among these

≈ 24k–248k copies

≈ $112k–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $6.7M–$17.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 245 reviews in their first month; the range was 172 to 329.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Cyberpunk (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Visual Novel, priced around $15.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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