How much revenue did Thymesia make?

$1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Thymesia sell?

Q: How many copies did Thymesia sell?

254k to 413k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 254k–413k; $1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.2M before Steam's cut; from 10k 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 Thymesia and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Thymesia's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 205k–596k

best case 1.2M (Salt and Sanctuary)

Games like Thymesia

A typical game among these

≈ 205k–596k copies

≈ $1.9M–$5.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Salt and Sanctuary at ≈ 915k–1.5M copies, ≈ $4.5M–$12.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Souls-like (4 of 4) and Dark Fantasy (3 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Metroidvania, priced around $18.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 52 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
Death's Gambit: Afterlife 2018	Est. copies ≈ 171k–278k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $939k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Souls-like Metroidvania
Mortal Shell 2021	Est. copies ≈ 300k–488k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.5M–$6.7M after Steam's cut $4.5M–$10.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	12k reviews Mixed	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
Hellpoint 2020	Est. copies ≈ 112k–183k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before Steam's cut	$34.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	Souls-likeSci-fi
Salt and Sanctuary 2016	Est. copies ≈ 915k–1.5M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.2M after Steam's cut $8.2M–$18.7M before Steam's cut	$17.99	22k reviews Very Positive	Souls-like Metroidvania