How much revenue did Damned Daniel make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Damned Daniel sell?

Q: How many copies did Damned Daniel sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 107 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 107 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 Damned Daniel and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Damned Daniel's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–53k

best case 322k (TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children)

Games like Damned Daniel

A typical game among these

≈ 31k–53k copies

≈ $98k–$582k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Anime (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children at ≈ 246k–399k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.5M 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 329 reviews in their first month; the range was 18 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (4 of 8) and JRPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with CRPG + Tactical RPG, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry CRPG + Tactical RPG + Turn-Based Tactics; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 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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