How much revenue did Timemelters make?

$26k–$71k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Timemelters sell?

Q: How many copies did Timemelters sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 194 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $26k–$71k after Steam's cut $48k–$109k before Steam's cut; from 194 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 Timemelters and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Timemelters's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.1M–9.0M

best case 28.0M (Baldur's Gate 3)

Games like Timemelters

A typical game among these

≈ 4.1M–9.0M copies

≈ $51.5M–$99.8M after Steam's cut

from ~150k 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 Fantasy (3 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: Baldur's Gate 3 at ≈ 21.3M–34.6M copies, ≈ $351.5M–$945.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fantasy (3 of 8) and Character Customization (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Choices Matter, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Choices Matter + Story Rich + Turn-Based Combat; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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