How much revenue did A Gay Love Story About Gay Love make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Gay Love Story About Gay Love sell?

Q: How many copies did A Gay Love Story About Gay Love sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 730 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before the cut; from 730 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 A Gay Love Story About Gay Love out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Gay Love Story About Gay Love's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 132k–205k

best case 548k (Carpe Diem)

Games like A Gay Love Story About Gay Love

The middle of these games

≈ 132k–205k copies

≈ $431k–$862k 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Carpe Diem at ≈ 418k–679k copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (7 of 8) and Visual Novel (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Visual Novel.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2021, 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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