How much revenue did Tails of Iron make?

$2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tails of Iron sell?

Q: How many copies did Tails of Iron sell?

376k to 611k copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 376k–611k; $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.7M before Steam's cut; from 15k 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 Tails of Iron and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tails of Iron's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 718k–1.0M

best case 39.5M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Tails of Iron

A typical game among these

≈ 718k–1.0M copies

≈ $6.0M–$14.3M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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.

Best case: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.1M–48.9M copies, ≈ $496.2M–$1334.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Souls-like (8 of 8) and Action RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Combat, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + RPG + Combat; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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