How much revenue did Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経 make?

$37k–$98k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経 sell?

Q: How many copies did Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経 sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 268 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $37k–$98k after Steam's cut $66k–$151k before the cut; from 268 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 Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 187–1k

best case 3k (东方远空界 ~ Ultimate Vitality of Imagination)

Games like Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経

The middle of these games

≈ 187–1k copies

≈ $295–$6k after Steam's cut

from ~9 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 东方远空界 ~ Ultimate Vitality of Imagination at ≈ 2k–4k copies, ≈ $6k–$17k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 41.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (6 of 8) and Flight (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Faith, priced around $10.
The era: Only 1 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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