How much revenue did Gensokyo Night Festival make?

$491k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gensokyo Night Festival sell?

Q: How many copies did Gensokyo Night Festival sell?

137k to 223k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 137k–223k; $491k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $892k–$2.0M before the cut; from 5k reviews (Mixed)

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 Gensokyo Night Festival out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gensokyo Night Festival's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 610k–1.5M

best case 2.0M (CONTROL Ultimate Edition)

Games like Gensokyo Night Festival

The middle of these games

≈ 610k–1.5M copies

≈ $4.9M–$19.3M after Steam's cut

from ~28k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: CONTROL Ultimate Edition at ≈ 1.6M–2.5M copies, ≈ $17.2M–$46.1M 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 5 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (6 of 8) and Metroidvania (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Supernatural + Female Protagonist, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 1 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 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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