How much revenue did Tennis Manager 2021 make?

$16k–$43k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tennis Manager 2021 sell?

Q: How many copies did Tennis Manager 2021 sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 232 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$65k before Steam's cut; from 232 reviews (Mostly 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 Tennis Manager 2021 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tennis Manager 2021's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 686k–998k

best case 1.3M (F1® 2020)

Games like Tennis Manager 2021

A typical game among these

≈ 686k–998k copies

≈ $6.0M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: F1® 2020 at ≈ 990k–1.6M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Sports (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Simulation.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 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
Motorsport Manager 2016	Est. copies ≈ 592k–962k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	14k reviews Very Positive	ManagementRacing
Football Manager 2019 2018	Est. copies ≈ 379k–617k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
Football Manager 2024 2023	Est. copies ≈ 709k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	29k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
Football Manager 2021 2020	Est. copies ≈ 591k–961k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	SportsSimulation
F1® 2020 2020	Est. copies ≈ 990k–1.6M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	40k reviews Very Positive	RacingSimulation
Football Manager 2020 2019	Est. copies ≈ 912k–1.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	32k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
Football Manager 2023 2022	Est. copies ≈ 491k–798k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	20k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
Football Manager 2022 2021	Est. copies ≈ 534k–867k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	22k reviews Very Positive	SportsManagement