How much revenue did Little Busters! English Edition make?

$404k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Little Busters! English Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Little Busters! English Edition sell?

42k to 68k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 42k–68k; $404k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $735k–$1.7M before the cut; from 1k 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 Little Busters! English Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Little Busters! English Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.9M

best case 1.9M (NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD)

Games like Little Busters! English Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies

≈ $1.1M–$9.7M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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: NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $6.3M–$16.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Anime, priced around $16.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 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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