How much revenue did The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series make?

$16.2M–$43.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series sell?

Q: How many copies did The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series sell?

1.2M to 1.9M copies, based on its 47k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–1.9M; $16.2M–$43.5M after Steam's cut $29.4M–$66.9M before Steam's cut; from 47k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 474k–694k

best case 1.2M (LoveChoice)

Games like The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series

A typical game among these

≈ 474k–694k copies

≈ $2.7M–$3.7M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: LoveChoice at ≈ 910k–1.5M copies, ≈ $498k–$1.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 621 to 28k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and Choices Matter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $14.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 1 of the 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 61 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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