How much revenue did The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- make?

$3.5M–$9.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- sell?

Q: How many copies did The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- sell?

214k to 348k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 214k–348k; $3.5M–$9.5M after Steam's cut $6.4M–$14.6M before the cut; from 9k 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 The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–3.3M

best case 4.5M (Persona 5 Royal)

Games like The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–3.3M copies

≈ $9.6M–$22.1M after Steam's cut

from ~69k 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: Persona 5 Royal at ≈ 3.4M–5.6M copies, ≈ $56.7M–$152.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (6 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 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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