How much revenue did Rakuen make?

$841k–$2.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rakuen sell?

Q: How many copies did Rakuen sell?

204k to 332k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 204k–332k; $841k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before the cut; from 6k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Rakuen out and predicted the genre from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including Rakuen's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.1M–19.0M

best case 38.7M (Portal 2)

Games like Rakuen

The middle of these games

≈ 7.1M–19.0M copies

≈ $99.4M–$145.8M after Steam's cut

from ~222k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 6 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–47.9M copies, ≈ $80.9M–$217.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 6) and Female Protagonist (3 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2021, 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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