How much revenue did My Lovely Daughter make?

$165k–$442k 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; $165k–$442k after Steam's cut $299k–$681k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 My Lovely Daughter and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including My Lovely Daughter's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–129k

best case 428k (The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante)

Games like My Lovely Daughter

A typical game among these

≈ 21k–129k copies

≈ $112k–$1.0M 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: The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante at ≈ 326k–529k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 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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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante 2021	Est. copies ≈ 326k–529k 9.3x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterStory Rich
This Is the President 2021	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $42k–$113k after Steam's cut $77k–$174k before Steam's cut	$14.99	412 reviews Mixed	AdventureStrategy
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