How much revenue did Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition make?

$2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition sell?

265k to 431k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 265k–431k; $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before Steam's cut; from 8k 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 Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.0M

best case 6.9M (NieR:Automata™)

Games like Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–2.0M copies

≈ $14.8M–$27.3M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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: NieR:Automata™ at ≈ 5.3M–8.6M copies, ≈ $58.2M–$156.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (6 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Female Protagonist, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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