How much revenue did Cynthia: Hidden in the Moonshadow make?

$16k–$42k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cynthia: Hidden in the Moonshadow sell?

Q: How many copies did Cynthia: Hidden in the Moonshadow sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 165 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $29k–$65k before the cut; from 165 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 Cynthia: Hidden in the Moonshadow out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cynthia: Hidden in the Moonshadow's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.5M–7.5M

best case 22.3M (Tomb Raider Game of the Year)

Games like Cynthia: Hidden in the Moonshadow

The middle of these games

≈ 4.5M–7.5M copies

≈ $74.7M–$157.0M after Steam's cut

from ~155k 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: Tomb Raider Game of the Year at ≈ 17.0M–27.6M copies, ≈ $93.5M–$251.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 27k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Female Protagonist + Third Person, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Third-Person Shooter + Multiplayer + Female Protagonist; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, 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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