How much revenue did Like a Dragon: Ishin! make?

$1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Like a Dragon: Ishin! sell?

Q: How many copies did Like a Dragon: Ishin! sell?

158k to 258k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 158k–258k; $1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.2M before the cut; from 6k reviews (Very 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 Like a Dragon: Ishin! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Like a Dragon: Ishin!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 432k–864k

best case 1.7M (FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE)

Games like Like a Dragon: Ishin!

The middle of these games

≈ 432k–864k copies

≈ $9.6M–$21.2M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $14.1M–$37.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on JRPG (7 of 8) and Action RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + JRPG, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 61 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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