How much revenue did Kemotaku make?

$765–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kemotaku sell?

Q: How many copies did Kemotaku sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $765–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Kemotaku out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kemotaku's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29k–58k

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Kemotaku

The middle of these games

≈ 29k–58k copies

≈ $137k–$260k after Steam's cut

from ~933 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: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.2M–$54.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 350 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 130 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Game (8 of 8) and Card Battler (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Horror + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, 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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