How many copies did Onmyoji sell?

94k to 153k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Onmyoji make?

Onmyoji is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Onmyoji?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 94k–153k; 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 Onmyoji and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Onmyoji's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.3M–4.8M

best case 7.7M (SMITE®)

Games like Onmyoji

A typical game among these

≈ 3.3M–4.8M copies

≈ $14.7M–$25.2M after Steam's cut

from ~73k 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 (3 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: SMITE® at ≈ 5.9M–9.5M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (3 of 8) and Character Customization (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with MOBA + Third Person.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2020, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Clicker Heroes 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.9M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	62k reviews Very Positive	ClickerIdler
DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $13.7M–$36.7M after Steam's cut $24.8M–$56.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	60k reviews Very Positive	AnimeFighting
Mirror 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before Steam's cut	$1.99	84k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Sexual ContentNudity
Black Desert 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$24.0M after Steam's cut $16.2M–$36.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	94k reviews Mostly Positive	MMORPGMassively Multiplayer
SMITE® 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.9M–9.5M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	120k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayMOBA
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online 2014	Est. copies ≈ 4.8M–7.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $26.4M–$71.0M after Steam's cut $48.0M–$109.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	86k reviews Very Positive	MMORPGRPG
Source Filmmaker 2012	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	44k reviews Very Positive	Animation & ModelingFree to Play
DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.0M–$21.4M after Steam's cut $14.5M–$32.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	58k reviews Very Positive	ActionRPG