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How many copies did Love, Ghostie sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 16k–26k
$89k–$239k after Steam's cut $161k–$367k before the cut
from 651 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Love, Ghostie out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Love, Ghostie's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 77k–178k
best case 1.3M (Tricolour Lovestory)
Games like Love, Ghostie

The middle of these games

≈ 77k–178k copies

≈ $304k–$1.1M 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.

Best case: Tricolour Lovestory at ≈ 965k–1.6M copies, ≈ $528k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

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 662 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Dating Sim, priced around $2.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, 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 52 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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