How much revenue did Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale make?

$2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale sell?

Q: How many copies did Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale sell?

475k to 771k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 475k–771k; $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.8M before the cut; from 8k 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 Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 333k–490k

best case 1.2M (AI LIMIT)

Games like Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

The middle of these games

≈ 333k–490k copies

≈ $2.6M–$7.1M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: AI LIMIT at ≈ 909k–1.5M copies, ≈ $8.7M–$23.5M 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 91 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (5 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Souls-like + Female Protagonist + Action RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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 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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