How much revenue did Misericorde: Volume One make?

$34k–$90k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Misericorde: Volume One sell?

Q: How many copies did Misericorde: Volume One sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 547 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $34k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$139k before the cut; from 547 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Misericorde: Volume One out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Misericorde: Volume One's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–18k

best case 24k (Daemonologie)

Games like Misericorde: Volume One

The middle of these games

≈ 9k–18k copies

≈ $30k–$61k after Steam's cut

from ~359 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.

Best case: Daemonologie at ≈ 18k–29k copies, ≈ $15k–$40k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 97 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 32 to 473.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (6 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Choices Matter, priced around $3.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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