How much revenue did YOKAIWARE make?

$612–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did YOKAIWARE sell?

Q: How many copies did YOKAIWARE sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $612–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 18 reviews (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 YOKAIWARE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including YOKAIWARE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 77k–181k

best case 407k (Pixel Strike 3D)

Games like YOKAIWARE

The middle of these games

≈ 77k–181k copies

≈ $549k–$893k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Minigames (3 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: Pixel Strike 3D at ≈ 310k–504k copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 263 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Minigames (3 of 8) and Arcade (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Combat Racing + Racing, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2025, 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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FlatOut 2007	Est. copies ≈ 420k–682k 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $865k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before the cut	$7.49	7k reviews Very Positive	Combat RacingRacing
UFO 50 2024	Est. copies ≈ 185k–301k 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before the cut	$24.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	IndiePixel Graphics
Pixel Strike 3D 2020	Est. copies ≈ 310k–504k 5.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	13k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayFPS
Trials Evolution: Gold Edition 2013	Est. copies ≈ 154k–250k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $845k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	RacingAction
GigaBash 2022	Est. copies ≈ 53k–86k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $364k–$978k after Steam's cut $661k–$1.5M before the cut	$24.99	2k reviews Very Positive	SuperheroAction
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