How much revenue did Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale make?

$2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale sell?

Q: How many copies did Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale sell?

476k to 774k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 476k–774k; $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut $4.8M–$10.8M before Steam's cut; from 8k 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 Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 334k–490k

best case 1.2M (AI LIMIT)

Games like Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

A typical game among these

≈ 334k–490k copies

≈ $2.6M–$8.8M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: AI LIMIT at ≈ 921k–1.5M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 91 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (5 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Souls-like + Female Protagonist + Action RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
AI LIMIT 2025	Est. copies ≈ 921k–1.5M 4.0x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $8.9M–$23.8M after Steam's cut $16.1M–$36.6M before Steam's cut	$34.99	37k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeFemale Protagonist
Suzukuri Dungeon: Karin in the Mountain 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $29k–$77k after Steam's cut $52k–$118k before Steam's cut	$24.99	168 reviews Mostly Positive	Creature CollectorTower Defense
Aura Kingdom 2014	Est. copies ≈ 475k–772k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	8k reviews Mostly Positive	AnimeFree to Play
Battle Chasers: Nightwar 2017	Est. copies ≈ 254k–413k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.6M after Steam's cut $3.8M–$8.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	7k reviews Very Positive	RPGTurn-Based Combat
Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom 2018	Est. copies ≈ 339k–552k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.5M–$20.1M after Steam's cut $13.6M–$30.9M before Steam's cut	$79.98	11k reviews Very Positive	RPGJRPG
小白兔电商~Bunny e-Shop 2021	Est. copies ≈ 254k–413k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $768k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$10.99	10k reviews Very Positive	CapitalismVisual Novel
Touhou Mystia's Izakaya 2021	Est. copies ≈ 815k–1.3M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.6M before Steam's cut	$5.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsCasual
Merchant in Dungeon 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $13k–$31k before Steam's cut	$8.99	121 reviews Very Positive	SimulationCapitalism