How much revenue did Necrobarista make?

$202k–$544k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Necrobarista sell?

Q: How many copies did Necrobarista sell?

37k to 60k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 37k–60k; $202k–$544k after Steam's cut $368k–$836k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Necrobarista and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Necrobarista's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 402k–1.3M

best case 2.1M (VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action)

Games like Necrobarista

A typical game among these

≈ 402k–1.3M copies

≈ $3.2M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $6.7M–$17.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (4 of 4) and Visual Novel (4 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Visual Novel, priced around $15.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 52 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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Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! 2021	Est. copies ≈ 813k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.4M–$9.0M after Steam's cut $6.1M–$13.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Visual Novel
Coffee Talk 2020	Est. copies ≈ 314k–510k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before Steam's cut	$12.99	13k reviews Very Positive	ConversationPixel Graphics
The House in Fata Morgana 2016	Est. copies ≈ 284k–462k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.1M before Steam's cut	$24.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Visual Novel Story Rich
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.7M–$17.9M after Steam's cut $12.1M–$27.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	39k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CyberpunkVisual Novel