How much revenue did QUIET DAN make?

$20k–$55k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did QUIET DAN sell?

Q: How many copies did QUIET DAN sell?

37k to 60k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 37k–60k; $20k–$55k after Steam's cut $37k–$84k before the cut; from 1k 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 QUIET DAN out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including QUIET DAN's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–2.4M

best case 5.7M (Everlasting Summer)

Games like QUIET DAN

The middle of these games

≈ 25k–2.4M copies

≈ $147k–$17.7M after Steam's cut

from ~20k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Everlasting Summer at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 127 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21 to 408.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Story Rich.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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