How much revenue did ADEN make?

$43k–$115k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ADEN sell?

Q: How many copies did ADEN sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 698 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $43k–$115k after Steam's cut $78k–$177k before the cut; from 698 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 ADEN out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ADEN's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 109k–1.8M

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like ADEN

The middle of these games

≈ 109k–1.8M copies

≈ $217k–$8.8M 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Doki Doki Literature Club! 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.8M–12.7M 17x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	227k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Visual Novel
Soda Drinker Pro 2016	Est. copies ≈ 33k–53k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $45k–$120k after Steam's cut $81k–$185k before the cut	$4.99	785 reviews Very Positive	Psychological Horror Simulation
Psychopomp GOLD 2024	Est. copies ≈ 133k–216k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $329k–$884k after Steam's cut $598k–$1.4M before the cut	$8.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological HorrorSurreal
Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo 2016	Est. copies ≈ 100k–162k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror2D
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.2M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.5M–$20.1M after Steam's cut $13.6M–$30.9M before the cut	$19.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeDetective
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M 4.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.3M–$16.9M after Steam's cut $11.4M–$26.0M before the cut	$15.99	58k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorAnime
Umfend 2018	Est. copies ≈ 21k–34k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $57k–$154k after Steam's cut $104k–$237k before the cut	$9.99	686 reviews Very Positive	IndieAdventure
The NOexistenceN of you AND me 2024	Est. copies ≈ 544k–885k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $298k–$801k after Steam's cut $542k–$1.2M before the cut	$1.99	22k reviews Very Positive	Visual Novel Psychological Horror