How much revenue did Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc make?

$8.8M–$23.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc sell?

Q: How many copies did Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc sell?

1.6M to 2.6M copies, based on its 38k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.6M–2.6M; $8.8M–$23.5M after Steam's cut $15.9M–$36.2M before the cut; from 38k 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 Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.2M

best case 2.8M (Persona 4 Golden)

Games like Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

The middle of these games

≈ 1.6M–2.2M copies

≈ $10.6M–$20.8M after Steam's cut

from ~52k 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: Persona 4 Golden at ≈ 2.2M–3.5M copies, ≈ $11.9M–$31.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Anime (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 2 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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