How much revenue did School Days make?

$803k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did School Days sell?

Q: How many copies did School Days sell?

195k to 316k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 195k–316k; $803k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before the cut; from 8k reviews (Mostly 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 School Days out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including School Days's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 433k–1.4M

best case 1.6M (Volcano Princess)

Games like School Days

The middle of these games

≈ 433k–1.4M copies

≈ $5.3M–$11.7M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: Volcano Princess at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Life Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Multiple Endings, priced around $11.
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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