How much revenue did Courage for a Kiss make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Courage for a Kiss sell?

Q: How many copies did Courage for a Kiss sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 45 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $6k–$15k before the cut; from 45 reviews (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 Courage for a Kiss out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Courage for a Kiss's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 125k–615k

best case 5.7M (Everlasting Summer)

Games like Courage for a Kiss

The middle of these games

≈ 125k–615k copies

≈ $624k–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Everlasting Summer at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 211 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 172 to 330.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (8 of 8) and Choices Matter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Story Rich.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 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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STEINS;GATE 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 5.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut $16.7M–$38.1M before the cut	$29.99	27k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual Novel Story Rich
Everlasting Summer 2014	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	78k reviews Very Positive	Visual Novel Story Rich
Re:DESTINY 2021	Est. copies ≈ 11k–18k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $12k–$33k after Steam's cut $22k–$51k before the cut	$3.99	450 reviews Mostly Positive	Sexual ContentMatch 3
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Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel 2017	Est. copies ≈ 142k–231k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Free to PlayOtome
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games 2017	Est. copies ≈ 253k–411k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.6M after Steam's cut $3.8M–$8.6M before the cut	$29.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Visual Novel Story Rich
DRAMAtical Murder 2021	Est. copies ≈ 123k–199k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $674k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before the cut	$19.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	LGBTQ+Sexual Content
ANONYMOUS;CODE 2023	Est. copies ≈ 14k–22k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $226k–$608k after Steam's cut $411k–$936k before the cut	$59.99	553 reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureVisual Novel