How much revenue did Return to Shironagasu Island make?

$143k–$384k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Return to Shironagasu Island sell?

Q: How many copies did Return to Shironagasu Island sell?

104k to 169k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 104k–169k; $143k–$384k after Steam's cut $260k–$591k before the cut; from 4k 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 Return to Shironagasu Island out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Return to Shironagasu Island's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–3.0M

best case 2.8M (Persona 4 Golden)

Games like Return to Shironagasu Island

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies

≈ $18.6M–$21.3M after Steam's cut

from ~56k 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: Persona 4 Golden at ≈ 2.2M–3.5M copies, ≈ $11.9M–$31.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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