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How many copies did Anima : The Reign of Darkness sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 16k–26k
$52k–$140k after Steam's cut $95k–$215k before the cut
from 637 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Anima : The Reign of Darkness out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Anima : The Reign of Darkness's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 561k–4.4M
best case 7.3M (Path of Exile 2)
Games like Anima : The Reign of Darkness

The middle of these games

≈ 561k–4.4M copies

≈ $3.6M–$53.5M after Steam's cut

from ~60k 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: Path of Exile 2 at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $45.9M–$123.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 86k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 102k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action RPG (8 of 8) and Hack and Slash (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action RPG + Hack and Slash, priced around $30.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 2 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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