How much revenue did Grand Academy for Future Villains make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Grand Academy for Future Villains sell?

Q: How many copies did Grand Academy for Future Villains sell?

894 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 894–1k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 26 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 Grand Academy for Future Villains out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grand Academy for Future Villains's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 180k–197k

best case 2.1M (Emily is Away)

Games like Grand Academy for Future Villains

The middle of these games

≈ 180k–197k copies

≈ $644k–$910k after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Emily is Away at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 939 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Romance (7 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Free to Play + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 2 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 61 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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