How much revenue did My Lovely Daughter make?

$164k–$440k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did My Lovely Daughter sell?

Q: How many copies did My Lovely Daughter sell?

40k to 65k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 40k–65k; $164k–$440k after Steam's cut $298k–$677k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly 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 My Lovely Daughter out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including My Lovely Daughter's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–129k

best case 420k (The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante)

Games like My Lovely Daughter

The middle of these games

≈ 21k–129k copies

≈ $112k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante at ≈ 320k–520k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 403 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 94 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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