How much revenue did Kalaban make?

$11k–$30k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kalaban sell?

Q: How many copies did Kalaban sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 97 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $20k–$46k before the cut; from 97 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 Kalaban out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kalaban's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–14k

best case 114k (Class of '09: The Flip Side)

Games like Kalaban

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–14k copies

≈ $20k–$92k after Steam's cut

from ~249 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Class of '09: The Flip Side at ≈ 87k–141k copies, ≈ $239k–$642k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 53 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (6 of 8) and Dark Comedy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Comedy + Visual Novel, priced around $10.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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