How much revenue did The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story make?

$384k–$1.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story sell?

Q: How many copies did The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story sell?

28k to 45k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–45k; $384k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $697k–$1.6M before the cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly 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 The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–197k

best case 1.5M (Love Is All Around)

Games like The Centennial Case : A Shijima Story

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–197k copies

≈ $16k–$831k after Steam's cut

from ~651 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Love Is All Around at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 366 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14 to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dating Sim + Sexual Content, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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