How much revenue did FINAL FANTASY V make?

$305k–$820k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FINAL FANTASY V sell?

Q: How many copies did FINAL FANTASY V sell?

62k to 100k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 62k–100k; $305k–$820k after Steam's cut $555k–$1.3M before the cut; from 2k 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 FINAL FANTASY V out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FINAL FANTASY V's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 98k–162k

best case 282k (FINAL FANTASY)

Games like FINAL FANTASY V

The middle of these games

≈ 98k–162k copies

≈ $642k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FINAL FANTASY at ≈ 215k–349k copies, ≈ $708k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 533 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on JRPG (8 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $12.
The era: Only 2 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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FINAL FANTASY 2021	Est. copies ≈ 215k–349k 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $708k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before the cut	$11.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	JRPGRPG
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