How much revenue did Chionophile make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chionophile sell?

Q: How many copies did Chionophile sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 212 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 212 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 Chionophile out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chionophile's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 155k–235k

best case 421k (Yume Nikki)

Games like Chionophile

The middle of these games

≈ 155k–235k copies

≈ $452k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Yume Nikki at ≈ 320k–521k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 633 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 411 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Walking Simulator (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RPGMaker + Psychological Horror.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, and 2 of your 7 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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