How much revenue did Waifu Crush make?

$570–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Waifu Crush sell?

Q: How many copies did Waifu Crush sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 42 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $570–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut; from 42 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 423–798

best case 32k (Staffer Reborn)

Games like Waifu Crush

The middle of these games

≈ 423–798 copies

≈ $1k–$5k after Steam's cut

from ~18 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: Staffer Reborn at ≈ 24k–39k copies, ≈ $33k–$89k 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 256 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 Puzzle (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Investigation + Story Rich, priced around $4.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 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 38 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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