How much revenue did Shuyan Saga™ make?

$77k–$207k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shuyan Saga™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Shuyan Saga™ sell?

19k to 30k copies, based on its 543 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–30k; $77k–$207k after Steam's cut $140k–$319k before Steam's cut; from 543 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 Shuyan Saga™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shuyan Saga™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 264k–495k

best case 1.1M (Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony)

Games like Shuyan Saga™

A typical game among these

≈ 264k–495k copies

≈ $2.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony at ≈ 806k–1.3M copies, ≈ $8.9M–$23.8M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Female Protagonist, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Psychological Horror + Detective; 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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