How much revenue did Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance make?

$5.2M–$14.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance sell?

Q: How many copies did Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance sell?

315k to 511k copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 315k–511k; $5.2M–$14.0M after Steam's cut $9.4M–$21.5M before the cut; from 13k 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 Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–4.4M

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

The middle of these games

≈ 3.0M–4.4M copies

≈ $22.0M–$94.2M after Steam's cut

from ~107k 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: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 92k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and JRPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + Story Rich, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Adventure + Fantasy + Exploration; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 1 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 43 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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