How much revenue did Grand Academy for Future Villains make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Grand Academy for Future Villains sell?

Q: How many copies did Grand Academy for Future Villains sell?

894 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 894–1k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 26 reviews (Mixed)

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 Grand Academy for Future Villains and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grand Academy for Future Villains's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 181k–199k

best case 1.1M (Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!)

Games like Grand Academy for Future Villains

A typical game among these

≈ 181k–199k copies

≈ $647k–$914k after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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 Plus! at ≈ 813k–1.3M copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.0M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 938 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Romance (7 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Free to Play + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 2 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 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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