How much revenue did Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米） make?

$91k–$246k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米） sell?

Q: How many copies did Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米） sell?

17k to 27k copies, based on its 483 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $91k–$246k after Steam's cut $166k–$378k before Steam's cut; from 483 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 Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米） and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米）'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–5.5M

best case 10.3M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Dong-Jin Rice-hime（東津萌米）

A typical game among these

≈ 1.9M–5.5M copies

≈ $10.7M–$41.5M after Steam's cut

from ~69k 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: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies.

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 536 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (6 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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 70 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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