How much revenue did FINAL FANTASY VIII - REMASTERED make?

$887k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FINAL FANTASY VIII - REMASTERED sell?

Q: How many copies did FINAL FANTASY VIII - REMASTERED sell?

161k to 262k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 161k–262k; $887k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before the cut; from 6k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left FINAL FANTASY VIII - REMASTERED out and predicted the genre from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including FINAL FANTASY VIII - REMASTERED's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 789k–1.4M

best case 2.8M (Persona 4 Golden)

Games like FINAL FANTASY VIII - REMASTERED

The middle of these games

≈ 789k–1.4M copies

≈ $10.3M–$14.9M after Steam's cut

from ~22k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 6 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Persona 4 Golden at ≈ 2.2M–3.5M copies, ≈ $11.9M–$31.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on JRPG (6 of 6) and Story Rich (6 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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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