How much revenue did The Butterfly Collector make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Butterfly Collector sell?

Q: How many copies did The Butterfly Collector sell?

24k to 39k copies, based on its 956 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–39k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before the cut; from 956 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 Butterfly Collector out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Butterfly Collector's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–109k

best case 270k (Homicipher)

Games like The Butterfly Collector

The middle of these games

≈ 16k–109k copies

≈ $76k–$503k after Steam's cut

from ~927 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: Homicipher at ≈ 206k–334k copies, ≈ $791k–$2.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 295 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 149 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Word Game (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Otome, priced around $14.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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