How much revenue did 筮灵 SHILING make?

$16k–$42k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 筮灵 SHILING sell?

Q: How many copies did 筮灵 SHILING sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 286 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $28k–$64k before the cut; from 286 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 筮灵 SHILING out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 筮灵 SHILING's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.7M

best case 5.7M (Everlasting Summer)

Games like 筮灵 SHILING

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies

≈ $7.6M–$16.2M after Steam's cut

from ~30k 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: Everlasting Summer at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and Visual Novel (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Story Rich, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Historical + Cooking + Interactive Fiction; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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