How much revenue did 1, 2 BLAME! make?

$327–$879 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 1, 2 BLAME! sell?

Q: How many copies did 1, 2 BLAME! sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $327–$879 after Steam's cut $595–$1k before the cut; from 12 reviews (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 1, 2 BLAME! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 1, 2 BLAME!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 50k–194k

best case 2.0M (Persona 3 Reload)

Games like 1, 2 BLAME!

The middle of these games

≈ 50k–194k copies

≈ $508k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Party-Based RPG (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Persona 3 Reload at ≈ 1.6M–2.5M copies, ≈ $25.6M–$68.8M after Steam's cut.

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 1 to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Party-Based RPG (4 of 8) and Detective (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Anime, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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