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How many copies did An Ankou sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 15k–25k
$21k–$56k after Steam's cut $38k–$87k before the cut
from 617 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left An Ankou out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including An Ankou's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 206k–398k
best case 949k (Moonlighter)
Games like An Ankou

The middle of these games

≈ 206k–398k copies

≈ $795k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Moonlighter at ≈ 723k–1.2M copies, ≈ $4.0M–$10.7M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 11k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Action Roguelike, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 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 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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