How much revenue did Aliya: Timelink make?

$196k–$526k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Aliya: Timelink sell?

Q: How many copies did Aliya: Timelink sell?

238k to 387k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 238k–387k; $196k–$526k after Steam's cut $356k–$810k before the cut; from 10k 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 Aliya: Timelink out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Aliya: Timelink's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 852k–1.6M

best case 3.8M (Mirror 2: Project X)

Games like Aliya: Timelink

The middle of these games

≈ 852k–1.6M copies

≈ $1.4M–$6.2M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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: Mirror 2: Project X at ≈ 2.9M–4.7M copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Match 3 + Anime, priced around $2.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 1 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 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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