How much revenue did Techno Banter make?

$16k–$43k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Techno Banter sell?

Q: How many copies did Techno Banter sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 131 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$66k before the cut; from 131 reviews (Very 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 Techno Banter out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Techno Banter's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–7k

best case 308k (The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles)

Games like Techno Banter

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–7k copies

≈ $11k–$21k after Steam's cut

from ~160 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles at ≈ 234k–381k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$6.9M 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 58 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9 to 875.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Choices Matter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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