How much revenue did Granblue Fantasy: Relink make?

$15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Granblue Fantasy: Relink sell?

Q: How many copies did Granblue Fantasy: Relink sell?

1.4M to 2.3M copies, based on its 56k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.4M–2.3M; $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut $27.8M–$63.3M before Steam's cut; from 56k 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 Granblue Fantasy: Relink and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Granblue Fantasy: Relink's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–2.8M

best case 4.1M (MONSTER HUNTER RISE)

Games like Granblue Fantasy: Relink

A typical game among these

≈ 1.8M–2.8M copies

≈ $23.0M–$50.3M after Steam's cut

from ~58k 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: MONSTER HUNTER RISE at ≈ 3.2M–5.1M copies, ≈ $34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 18k reviews in their first month; the range was 9k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share JRPG (5 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hunting + Character Customization, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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).

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