How much revenue did Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim sell?

Q: How many copies did Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 91 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before the cut; from 91 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 Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 634k–1.3M

best case 2.1M (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc)

Games like Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim

The middle of these games

≈ 634k–1.3M copies

≈ $2.2M–$16.2M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $8.8M–$23.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Anime (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Visual Novel, priced around $20.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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