How much revenue did Athenian Rhapsody make?

$38k–$101k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Athenian Rhapsody sell?

Q: How many copies did Athenian Rhapsody sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 368 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $38k–$101k after Steam's cut $68k–$156k before the cut; from 368 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 Athenian Rhapsody out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Athenian Rhapsody's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 122–6k

best case 15k (Antaria Online)

Games like Athenian Rhapsody

The middle of these games

≈ 122–6k copies

≈ $1k–$30k after Steam's cut

from ~37 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action 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: Antaria Online at ≈ 11k–18k copies.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 29 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RPG (4 of 8) and Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Choose Your Own Adventure.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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