How much revenue did Tetris® Effect: Connected make?

$2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tetris® Effect: Connected sell?

Q: How many copies did Tetris® Effect: Connected sell?

224k to 364k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 224k–364k; $2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut $4.5M–$10.2M before Steam's cut; from 9k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Tetris® Effect: Connected and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tetris® Effect: Connected's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.7M–8.0M

best case 12.2M (Hogwarts Legacy)

Games like Tetris® Effect: Connected

A typical game among these

≈ 3.7M–8.0M copies

≈ $21.0M–$71.0M after Steam's cut

from ~88k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Story Rich (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Hogwarts Legacy at ≈ 9.3M–15.1M copies, ≈ $153.2M–$412.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (4 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Magic + Open World, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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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