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How many copies did Taoist priest Yan sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 570–927
$782–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut
from 23 reviews (Positive)

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 Taoist priest Yan out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Taoist priest Yan's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 106–830
best case 2.0M (CONTROL Ultimate Edition)
Games like Taoist priest Yan

The middle of these games

≈ 106–830 copies

≈ $177–$1k after Steam's cut

from ~5 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: CONTROL Ultimate Edition at ≈ 1.6M–2.5M copies, ≈ $17.2M–$46.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 5k 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 Horror (5 of 8) and Souls-like (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Supernatural + Story Rich, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Supernatural + Singleplayer + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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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