How much revenue did Vampires' Melody make?

$156k–$419k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vampires' Melody sell?

Q: How many copies did Vampires' Melody sell?

142k to 231k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 142k–231k; $156k–$419k after Steam's cut $283k–$645k before the cut; from 6k 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 Vampires' Melody out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vampires' Melody's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–3.3M

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Vampires' Melody

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–3.3M copies

≈ $3.8M–$17.5M after Steam's cut

from ~45k 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: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Visual Novel (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel. The breakout hits carry Psychological Horror + Horror + Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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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