How much revenue did TOUHOU SKY ARENA MATSURI CLIMAX make?

$33k–$88k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TOUHOU SKY ARENA MATSURI CLIMAX sell?

Q: How many copies did TOUHOU SKY ARENA MATSURI CLIMAX sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 240 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $33k–$88k after Steam's cut $59k–$135k before the cut; from 240 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 TOUHOU SKY ARENA MATSURI CLIMAX out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TOUHOU SKY ARENA MATSURI CLIMAX's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 658k–1.3M

best case 2.2M (Realm Royale Reforged)

Games like TOUHOU SKY ARENA MATSURI CLIMAX

The middle of these games

≈ 658k–1.3M copies

≈ $9.3M–$11.9M after Steam's cut

from ~21k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Hack and Slash (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Realm Royale Reforged at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (3 of 8) and 3D Fighter (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 79 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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