How much revenue did Glaze Cup: Journey to the West make?

$18k–$49k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Glaze Cup: Journey to the West sell?

Q: How many copies did Glaze Cup: Journey to the West sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 178 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $18k–$49k after Steam's cut $33k–$75k before the cut; from 178 reviews (Mostly 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 Glaze Cup: Journey to the West out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Glaze Cup: Journey to the West's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 296k–592k

best case 1.2M (BlazBlue Entropy Effect)

Games like Glaze Cup: Journey to the West

The middle of these games

≈ 296k–592k copies

≈ $1.1M–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: BlazBlue Entropy Effect at ≈ 898k–1.5M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Action-Adventure, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 3 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 61 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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