How much revenue did Cavalry Girls make?

$162k–$436k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cavalry Girls sell?

Q: How many copies did Cavalry Girls sell?

49k to 80k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 49k–80k; $162k–$436k after Steam's cut $295k–$670k before the cut; from 2k 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 Cavalry Girls out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cavalry Girls's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–7k

best case 12k (Sierra Ops - Space Strategy Visual Novel)

Games like Cavalry Girls

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–7k copies

≈ $12k–$31k after Steam's cut

from ~149 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: Sierra Ops - Space Strategy Visual Novel at ≈ 9k–15k copies, ≈ $37k–$100k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 41 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 162.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (5 of 8) and Shoot 'Em Up (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choose Your Own Adventure + Shoot 'Em Up, priced around $15.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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