How much revenue did Stranger of Sword City make?

$146k–$394k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stranger of Sword City sell?

Q: How many copies did Stranger of Sword City sell?

27k to 43k copies, based on its 640 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–43k; $146k–$394k after Steam's cut $266k–$605k before the cut; from 640 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 55k–276k

best case 333k (Battle Chasers: Nightwar)

Games like Stranger of Sword City

The middle of these games

≈ 55k–276k copies

≈ $406k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Battle Chasers: Nightwar at ≈ 254k–412k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (6 of 8) and JRPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + JRPG, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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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