How much revenue did Venba make?

$381k–$1.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Venba sell?

Q: How many copies did Venba sell?

92k to 150k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 92k–150k; $381k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $692k–$1.6M before the cut; from 4k 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 Venba out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Venba's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 260k–280k

best case 1.5M (Sally Face - Episode One)

Games like Venba

The middle of these games

≈ 260k–280k copies

≈ $1.4M–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sally Face - Episode One at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $959k–$2.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 120 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (6 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Psychological Horror, priced around $3. The breakout hits carry Psychological Horror + Horror + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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