How much revenue did You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana make?

$24k–$65k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana sell?

Q: How many copies did You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 354 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $24k–$65k after Steam's cut $44k–$100k before the cut; from 354 reviews (Very 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 You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–9k

best case 262k (Scribble It!)

Games like You Can Kana - Learn Japanese Hiragana & Katakana

The middle of these games

≈ 7k–9k copies

≈ $7k–$18k after Steam's cut

from ~163 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Scribble It! at ≈ 200k–324k copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Typing (6 of 8) and Word Game (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Education + Exploration, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Family Friendly + Exploration; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2021, 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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