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How many copies did Homicipher sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 206k–334k
$791k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M before the cut
from 8k 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 Homicipher out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Homicipher's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 68k–103k
best case 286k (Amnesia™: Memories)
Games like Homicipher

The middle of these games

≈ 68k–103k copies

≈ $360k–$628k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: Amnesia™: Memories at ≈ 218k–354k copies, ≈ $598k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Anime (7 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Otome + Visual Novel, priced around $10.
The era
None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2019. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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 36 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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