How much revenue did Tandis make?

$25k–$66k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tandis sell?

Q: How many copies did Tandis sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 241 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $25k–$66k after Steam's cut $45k–$102k before the cut; from 241 reviews (Very 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 Tandis out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tandis's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–50k

best case 63k (Proverbs)

Games like Tandis

The middle of these games

≈ 11k–50k copies

≈ $22k–$85k after Steam's cut

from ~647 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Proverbs at ≈ 48k–78k copies, ≈ $119k–$319k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 144 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15 to 253.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Clicker, priced around $9.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of your 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).

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