How much revenue did SAMURAI MAIDEN make?

$313k–$840k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SAMURAI MAIDEN sell?

Q: How many copies did SAMURAI MAIDEN sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 764 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $313k–$840k after Steam's cut $568k–$1.3M before the cut; from 764 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 SAMURAI MAIDEN out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SAMURAI MAIDEN's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 398k–523k

best case 5.8M (Celeste)

Games like SAMURAI MAIDEN

The middle of these games

≈ 398k–523k copies

≈ $3.2M–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Story Rich (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Celeste at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.5M–$65.8M 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 621 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (4 of 8) and Choices Matter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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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Coffee Talk 2020	Est. copies ≈ 311k–505k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before the cut	$12.99	13k reviews Very Positive	ConversationPixel Graphics
觅长生 2023	Est. copies ≈ 792k–1.3M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.5M before the cut	$14.99	32k reviews Very Positive	RPGOpen World
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