How much revenue did Black Book make?

$1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Black Book sell?

Q: How many copies did Black Book sell?

167k to 271k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 167k–271k; $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.7M 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 Black Book out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Black Book's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–175k

best case 1.0M (觅长生)

Games like Black Book

The middle of these games

≈ 24k–175k copies

≈ $185k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 觅长生 at ≈ 792k–1.3M copies, ≈ $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 178 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based Tactics (5 of 8) and Roguelike Deckbuilder (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Martial Arts, priced around $15.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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