How much revenue did The Legend of Tianding make?

$597k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Legend of Tianding sell?

Q: How many copies did The Legend of Tianding sell?

109k to 177k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 109k–177k; $597k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before the cut; from 4k 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 The Legend of Tianding out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Legend of Tianding's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.5M–3.2M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like The Legend of Tianding

The middle of these games

≈ 2.5M–3.2M copies

≈ $30.2M after Steam's cut

from ~71k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 30k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7k to 268k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Superhero, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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