How much revenue did Yixin make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Yixin sell?

Q: How many copies did Yixin sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 124 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$10k before the cut; from 124 reviews (Mostly 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 Yixin out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Yixin's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 435k–713k

best case 1.2M (LoveChoice)

Games like Yixin

The middle of these games

≈ 435k–713k copies

≈ $1.3M–$4.8M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: LoveChoice at ≈ 908k–1.5M copies, ≈ $497k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dating Sim (8 of 8) and Romance (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Romance + Dating Sim, priced around $2.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 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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