How much revenue did Talk to Saki make?

$117–$313 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Talk to Saki sell?

Q: How many copies did Talk to Saki sell?

213 to 346 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 213–346; $117–$313 after Steam's cut $212–$482 before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Talk to Saki out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Talk to Saki's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 90k–103k

best case 666k (Her Story)

Games like Talk to Saki

The middle of these games

≈ 90k–103k copies

≈ $404k–$507k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Her Story at ≈ 507k–824k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M 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 248 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 31 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Typing (6 of 8) and Visual Novel (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choose Your Own Adventure, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Choose Your Own Adventure + Exploration + Detective; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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