How much revenue did Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin sell?

Q: How many copies did Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 148 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before the cut; from 148 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 Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 640k–841k

best case 815k (Summer Memories)

Games like Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin

The middle of these games

≈ 640k–841k copies

≈ $901k–$4.7M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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 Anime (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: Summer Memories at ≈ 621k–1.0M copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 556 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (4 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sexual Content + Nudity, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, 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 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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Rabi-Ribi 2016	Est. copies ≈ 510k–829k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut $4.6M–$10.4M before the cut	$17.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeMetroidvania
The Test 2020	Est. copies ≈ 499k–811k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $273k–$734k after Steam's cut $497k–$1.1M before the cut	$1.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choose Your Own AdventureSimulation
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Outcore: Desktop Adventure 2022	Est. copies ≈ 453k–736k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	18k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventurePsychological Horror
Summer Memories 2020	Est. copies ≈ 621k–1.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.1M before the cut	$19.99	25k reviews Very Positive	Sexual ContentNudity
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Finding Paradise 2017	Est. copies ≈ 699k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$7.9M before the cut	$9.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichEmotional
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