How much revenue did Akai Katana Shin make?

$22k–$59k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Akai Katana Shin sell?

Q: How many copies did Akai Katana Shin sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 108 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $22k–$59k after Steam's cut $40k–$91k before the cut; from 108 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 Akai Katana Shin out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Akai Katana Shin's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–17k

best case 1.8M (FlatOut 2)

Games like Akai Katana Shin

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–17k copies

≈ $7k–$154k after Steam's cut

from ~146 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Arcade (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: FlatOut 2 at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.3M 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 24 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 459.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (4 of 8) and Bowling (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Combat Racing, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Destruction + Automobile Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 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 79 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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