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How many copies did YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY- sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 46k–75k
$253k–$680k after Steam's cut $460k–$1.0M before the cut
from 2k reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 557k–1.1M
best case 1.1M (Chants of Sennaar)
Games like YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-

The middle of these games

≈ 557k–1.1M copies

≈ $4.3M–$7.9M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: Chants of Sennaar at ≈ 844k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.6M–$12.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 10k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Point & Click, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 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 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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