How much revenue did Tales of the Black Forest make?

$489k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tales of the Black Forest sell?

Q: How many copies did Tales of the Black Forest sell?

446k to 725k copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446k–725k; $489k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $890k–$2.0M 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 Tales of the Black Forest out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tales of the Black Forest's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 288k–1.2M

best case 2.9M (OMORI)

Games like Tales of the Black Forest

The middle of these games

≈ 288k–1.2M copies

≈ $1.3M–$7.3M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: OMORI at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and RPGMaker (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $20.
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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