How much revenue did Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy make?

$10.7M–$28.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy sell?

Q: How many copies did Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy sell?

1.3M to 2.1M copies, based on its 45k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.3M–2.1M; $10.7M–$28.6M after Steam's cut $19.4M–$44.1M before the cut; from 45k 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 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–3.6M

best case 4.5M (Persona 5 Royal)

Games like Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy

The middle of these games

≈ 2.0M–3.6M copies

≈ $15.5M–$54.5M after Steam's cut

from ~51k 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: Persona 5 Royal at ≈ 3.4M–5.6M copies, ≈ $56.7M–$152.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (8 of 8) and Anime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Story Rich, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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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