How much revenue did Little Busters! English Edition make?

$413k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Little Busters! English Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Little Busters! English Edition sell?

43k to 70k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 43k–70k; $413k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $752k–$1.7M before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Little Busters! English Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Little Busters! English Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.9M

best case 1.9M (NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD)

Games like Little Busters! English Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies

≈ $1.1M–$9.8M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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: NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD at ≈ 1.4M–2.4M copies, ≈ $6.4M–$17.1M 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 7k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Anime, priced around $16.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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