How much revenue did Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair make?

$7.5M–$20.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair sell?

Q: How many copies did Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair sell?

1.4M to 2.2M copies, based on its 33k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.4M–2.2M; $7.5M–$20.1M after Steam's cut $13.6M–$30.9M before the cut; from 33k 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 2: Goodbye Despair out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 308k–355k

best case 1.7M (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy)

Games like Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

The middle of these games

≈ 308k–355k copies

≈ $3.2M–$4.8M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.7M–$28.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mystery (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Visual Novel, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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