How much revenue did Princess Maker 2 Refine make?

$395k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Princess Maker 2 Refine sell?

Q: How many copies did Princess Maker 2 Refine sell?

72k to 117k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 72k–117k; $395k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $718k–$1.6M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Princess Maker 2 Refine and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Princess Maker 2 Refine's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 172k–530k

best case 1.6M (Volcano Princess)

Games like Princess Maker 2 Refine

A typical game among these

≈ 172k–530k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Volcano Princess at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 69 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (6 of 8) and Visual Novel (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Multiple Endings, priced around $11. The breakout hits carry Life Sim + RPG + Dating Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, 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 79 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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