How much revenue did How To Date A Magical Girl! make?

$33k–$90k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did How To Date A Magical Girl! sell?

Q: How many copies did How To Date A Magical Girl! sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 469 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $33k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$138k before Steam's cut; from 469 reviews (Mostly 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 How To Date A Magical Girl! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including How To Date A Magical Girl!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 630k–2.0M

best case 10.3M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like How To Date A Magical Girl!

A typical game among these

≈ 630k–2.0M copies

≈ $1.4M–$12.8M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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! at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 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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NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.4M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut $11.6M–$26.3M before Steam's cut	$15.99	58k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorAnime
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
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Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma 2016	Est. copies ≈ 205k–334k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle Visual Novel
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.5M–$20.3M after Steam's cut $13.7M–$31.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeDetective
Doki Doki Literature Club! 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.9M–12.8M 6.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	229k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Visual Novel
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