How much revenue did Eastern Exorcist make?

$831k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Eastern Exorcist sell?

Q: How many copies did Eastern Exorcist sell?

168k to 273k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 168k–273k; $831k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut; from 7k 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 Eastern Exorcist out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Eastern Exorcist's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–328k

best case 689k (Blasphemous 2)

Games like Eastern Exorcist

The middle of these games

≈ 64k–328k copies

≈ $460k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Blasphemous 2 at ≈ 525k–853k copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 221 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (6 of 8) and Souls-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Combat + Fantasy, priced around $38.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 2 of your 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 38 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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