How much revenue did Canvas Menagerie make?

$614–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Canvas Menagerie sell?

Q: How many copies did Canvas Menagerie sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $614–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 206k–454k

best case 587k (missed messages.)

Games like Canvas Menagerie

The middle of these games

≈ 206k–454k copies

≈ $853k–$1.3M 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.

Best case: missed messages. at ≈ 447k–727k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 931 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 330 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Romance (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + LGBTQ+.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2023, and none of them 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 43 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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