How much revenue did Tiny Combat Arena make?

$216k–$581k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tiny Combat Arena sell?

Q: How many copies did Tiny Combat Arena sell?

39k to 64k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–64k; $216k–$581k after Steam's cut $393k–$893k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Tiny Combat Arena and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tiny Combat Arena's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 180k–510k

best case 987k (VTOL VR)

Games like Tiny Combat Arena

A typical game among these

≈ 180k–510k copies

≈ $1.1M–$9.8M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: VTOL VR at ≈ 752k–1.2M copies, ≈ $6.2M–$16.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 562 reviews in their first month; the range was 45 to 800.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + VR, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 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 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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