How many copies did Visual Novel Engine sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 120 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Visual Novel Engine make?

Visual Novel Engine is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Visual Novel Engine?

Estimated owners: ≈ 4k–7k; from 120 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 Visual Novel Engine out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Visual Novel Engine's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 102k–112k

best case 326k (小黑盒加速器)

Games like Visual Novel Engine

The middle of these games

≈ 102k–112k copies

≈ $447k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 小黑盒加速器 at ≈ 248k–403k copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Utilities (8 of 8) and Web Publishing (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Utilities + Software. The breakout hits carry Photo Editing + Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2021, 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 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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Stream Avatars 2017	Est. copies ≈ 85k–139k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $351k–$945k after Steam's cut $639k–$1.5M before the cut	$14.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Video ProductionAnimation & Modeling
LIV 2019	Est. copies ≈ 27k–45k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	954 reviews Very Positive	UtilitiesVideo Production
ShareX 2015	Est. copies ≈ 413k–671k 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Photo EditingUtilities
FPS Monitor – hardware in-game & desktop overlays 2018	Est. copies ≈ 69k–112k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $247k–$665k after Steam's cut $450k–$1.0M before the cut	$12.99	2k reviews Very Positive	UtilitiesGame Development
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Clickteam Fusion 2.5 2013	Est. copies ≈ 129k–210k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $3.5M–$9.5M after Steam's cut $6.4M–$14.7M before the cut	$99.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Game DevelopmentAnimation & Modeling
Discord Bot Maker 2017	Est. copies ≈ 83k–134k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $227k–$611k after Steam's cut $413k–$940k before the cut	$9.99	2k reviews Very Positive	UtilitiesWeb Publishing
小黑盒加速器 2021	Est. copies ≈ 248k–403k 4.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	10k reviews Very Positive	Web PublishingGame Development