How much revenue did Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG make?

$14k–$37k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG sell?

Q: How many copies did Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 134 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$57k before Steam's cut; from 134 reviews (Mixed)

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 Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–92k

best case 373k (Epistory - Typing Chronicles)

Games like Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–92k copies

≈ $38k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~372 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (2 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: Epistory - Typing Chronicles at ≈ 284k–462k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 59 reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 226.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (2 of 8) and Combat (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Typing + Narrative, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, and 2 of the 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Epistory - Typing Chronicles 2016	Est. copies ≈ 284k–462k 18x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Very Positive	TypingAdventure
Alchemist Adventure 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $24k–$55k before Steam's cut	$14.99	129 reviews Mostly Positive	Action-AdventureMedieval
Code Wizard: Java Edition 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut	$5.99	41 reviews Positive	EducationProgramming
Glittermitten Grove 2016	Est. copies ≈ 24k–39k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $66k–$178k after Steam's cut $120k–$273k before Steam's cut	$9.99	578 reviews Very Positive	Farming Sim City Builder
Secret of the Magic Crystals 2010	Est. copies ≈ 105k–170k 4.4x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $144k–$386k after Steam's cut $261k–$594k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Time ManagementManagement
Coloring Book for Kids 2021	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	163 reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayCasual
Toy Tactics 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $28k–$76k after Steam's cut $51k–$117k before Steam's cut	$24.99	166 reviews Very Positive	PhysicsHistorical
RPG Maker MZ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 59k–96k 6.4x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before Steam's cut	$79.99	2k reviews Very Positive	RPGGame Development