How much revenue did Kukui make?

Kukui is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Kukui sell?

Q: How many copies did Kukui sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 35 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; from 35 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Kukui out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kukui's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.8M–5.6M

best case 9.0M (Resident Evil 4)

Games like Kukui

The middle of these games

≈ 4.8M–5.6M copies

≈ $40.7M–$51.2M after Steam's cut

from ~122k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 6.8M–11.1M copies, ≈ $75.3M–$202.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14k to 68k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (5 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Psychological Horror + Visual Novel + Anime; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.4M before the cut	$4.99	104k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
Little Nightmares 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.0M–$59.3M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.2M before the cut	$19.99	117k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
Doki Doki Literature Club! 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.8M–12.7M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	228k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Visual Novel
Metro Exodus 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $27.8M–$74.6M after Steam's cut $50.5M–$114.8M before the cut	$29.99	136k reviews Very Positive	Post-apocalypticFPS
Blender 2015	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	91k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Animation & ModelingSoftware
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.9M–$64.4M after Steam's cut $43.5M–$99.0M before the cut	$19.99	127k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Resident Evil Village 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $41.9M–$112.7M after Steam's cut $76.2M–$173.4M before the cut	$39.99	154k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Survival Horror Horror
Resident Evil 4 2023	Est. copies ≈ 6.8M–11.1M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $75.3M–$202.5M after Steam's cut $136.9M–$311.6M before the cut	$39.99	276k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorAction