How much revenue did Magical Delicacy make?

$48k–$129k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Magical Delicacy sell?

Q: How many copies did Magical Delicacy sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 281 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $48k–$129k after Steam's cut $87k–$198k before the cut; from 281 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 Magical Delicacy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Magical Delicacy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 205k–622k

best case 803k (Disney Dreamlight Valley)

Games like Magical Delicacy

The middle of these games

≈ 205k–622k copies

≈ $1.4M–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Exploration (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: Disney Dreamlight Valley at ≈ 612k–994k copies, ≈ $6.7M–$18.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (4 of 8) and Metroidvania (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Character Customization, priced around $40.
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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