How much revenue did Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii make?

$4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii sell?

Q: How many copies did Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii sell?

244k to 397k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 244k–397k; $4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's cut $7.3M–$16.7M before the cut; from 10k 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 Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–702k

best case 848k (Blackwake)

Games like Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–702k copies

≈ $5k–$6.6M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Blackwake at ≈ 646k–1.1M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 221 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Pirates (8 of 8) and Hack and Slash (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Pirates + Naval Combat.
The era: The games you compared span 2005 to 2025, and 3 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 79 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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