How much revenue did Kalinur make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kalinur sell?

Q: How many copies did Kalinur sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 498 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before the cut; from 498 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 Kalinur out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kalinur's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–4.1M

best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Kalinur

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–4.1M copies

≈ $8.4M–$39.7M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.2M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (7 of 8) and Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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