How many copies did DOTOKOI / 像素男友 sell?

34k to 55k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did DOTOKOI / 像素男友 make?

DOTOKOI / 像素男友 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is DOTOKOI / 像素男友?

Estimated owners: ≈ 34k–55k; from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 DOTOKOI / 像素男友 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DOTOKOI / 像素男友's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.7M–8.5M

best case 56.5M (Stardew Valley)

Games like DOTOKOI / 像素男友

The middle of these games

≈ 5.7M–8.5M copies

≈ $19.4M–$60.7M after Steam's cut

from ~151k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Simulation (2 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.0M–69.9M copies, ≈ $177.4M–$476.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (2 of 8) and 4 Player Local (1 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Relaxing + Farming Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, and none of them 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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