How much revenue did NEKOPARA Vol. 3 make?

$1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did NEKOPARA Vol. 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did NEKOPARA Vol. 3 sell?

414k to 672k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 414k–672k; $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.7M before the cut; from 12k 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 NEKOPARA Vol. 3 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including NEKOPARA Vol. 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.0M–10.4M

best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like NEKOPARA Vol. 3

The middle of these games

≈ 4.0M–10.4M copies

≈ $5.3M–$26.7M after Steam's cut

from ~135k 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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 27k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7k to 64k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (6 of 8) and Sexual Content (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 1 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 43 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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