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How many copies did Boyfriend Dungeon sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 66k–108k
$366k–$983k after Steam's cut $665k–$1.5M before the cut
from 3k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Boyfriend Dungeon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Boyfriend Dungeon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 378k–496k
best case 1.7M (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy)
Games like Boyfriend Dungeon

The middle of these games

≈ 378k–496k copies

≈ $2.6M–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.7M–$28.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 795 to 11k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Singleplayer + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 38 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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