How much revenue did Royal Alchemist make?

$44k–$118k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Royal Alchemist sell?

Q: How many copies did Royal Alchemist sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 323 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $44k–$118k after Steam's cut $80k–$182k before the cut; from 323 reviews (Very 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 Royal Alchemist out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Royal Alchemist's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 77k–151k

best case 557k (Hatoful Boyfriend)

Games like Royal Alchemist

The middle of these games

≈ 77k–151k copies

≈ $490k–$652k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hatoful Boyfriend at ≈ 424k–689k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Dating Sim, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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