How much revenue did STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram make?

STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram sell?

Q: How many copies did STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram sell?

39k to 63k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–63k; from 1k 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 STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–4.8M

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–4.8M copies

≈ $11.7M–$21.3M after Steam's cut

from ~69k 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: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies.

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 7k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (6 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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