How many copies did Katawa Shoujo sell?

152k to 247k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Katawa Shoujo make?

Katawa Shoujo is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Katawa Shoujo?

Estimated owners: ≈ 152k–247k; from 6k 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 Katawa Shoujo out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Katawa Shoujo's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.2M

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Katawa Shoujo

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–2.2M copies

≈ $4.6M–$9.7M after Steam's cut

from ~46k 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: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (6 of 8) and Dating Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel. The breakout hits carry Psychological Horror + Horror + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
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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