How much revenue did Touhou Luna Nights make?

$2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Touhou Luna Nights sell?

Q: How many copies did Touhou Luna Nights sell?

430k to 699k copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 430k–699k; $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.8M before the cut; from 15k 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 Touhou Luna Nights out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Touhou Luna Nights's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 459k–665k

best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)

Games like Touhou Luna Nights

The middle of these games

≈ 459k–665k copies

≈ $3.1M–$4.4M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.2M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry 2.5D + Great Soundtrack + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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