How much revenue did Sanfu make?

$1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sanfu sell?

Q: How many copies did Sanfu sell?

442k to 719k copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 442k–719k; $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before the cut; from 18k 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 Sanfu out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sanfu's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 736k–2.0M

best case 5.4M (Firewatch)

Games like Sanfu

The middle of these games

≈ 736k–2.0M copies

≈ $3.5M–$15.2M after Steam's cut

from ~41k 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: Firewatch at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $22.7M–$61.1M 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 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6k to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Walking Simulator, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Walking Simulator + First-Person + Mystery; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, 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 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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