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How many copies did Sword and Fairy 3 Ex sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 14k–22k
$30k–$82k after Steam's cut $55k–$126k before the cut
from 557 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 Sword and Fairy 3 Ex out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sword and Fairy 3 Ex's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 378k–2.3M
best case 4.5M (Persona 5 Royal)
Games like Sword and Fairy 3 Ex

The middle of these games

≈ 378k–2.3M copies

≈ $2.8M–$16.7M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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: Persona 5 Royal at ≈ 3.4M–5.6M copies, ≈ $56.7M–$152.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 19k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Turn-Based Combat (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $60.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, 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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