How much revenue did Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs make?

$445k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs sell?

Q: How many copies did Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs sell?

54k to 88k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 54k–88k; $445k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $809k–$1.8M before the cut; from 2k 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 Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–2.6M

best case 5.7M (Everlasting Summer)

Games like Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–2.6M copies

≈ $15.0M–$18.8M after Steam's cut

from ~42k 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: Everlasting Summer at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Story Rich.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 79 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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