How much revenue did Tape to Tape make?

$506k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tape to Tape sell?

Q: How many copies did Tape to Tape sell?

92k to 150k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 92k–150k; $506k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $921k–$2.1M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Tape to Tape and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tape to Tape's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 838–15k

best case 26k (Cursed to Golf)

Games like Tape to Tape

A typical game among these

≈ 838–15k copies

≈ $1k–$98k after Steam's cut

from ~120 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Sports (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Cursed to Golf at ≈ 20k–33k copies, ≈ $110k–$296k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 57 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 471.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sports (3 of 8) and Arcade (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Golf, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Cursed to Golf 2022	Est. copies ≈ 20k–33k 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $110k–$296k after Steam's cut $200k–$456k before Steam's cut	$19.99	808 reviews Mostly Positive	Rogue-likeDifficult
RoboDunk 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$40k before Steam's cut	$14.99	95 reviews Very Positive	SportsArcade
Golf Odyssey 2 DX 2023	Est. copies ≈ 198–322 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $381–$1k after Steam's cut $692–$2k before Steam's cut	$6.99	8 reviews 8 user reviews	DifficultPhysics
Golfie 2023	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $52k–$139k after Steam's cut $94k–$213k before Steam's cut	$17.99	420 reviews Mixed	PvPAction
3dSen PC 2025	Est. copies ≈ 14k–23k 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $57k–$154k after Steam's cut $104k–$236k before Steam's cut	$14.99	559 reviews Very Positive	PlatformerAdventure
Surmount 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$61k before Steam's cut	$14.99	145 reviews Very Positive	ActionProcedural Generation
Bike Arena 2022	Est. copies ≈ 248–403 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $136–$365 after Steam's cut $247–$561 before Steam's cut	$1.99	10 reviews Mixed	AdventureCasual
Super Block Crush 2023	Est. copies ≈ 769–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $633–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$2.99	31 reviews Positive	CasualShooter