How much revenue did Tough Law make?

$706–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tough Law sell?

Q: How many copies did Tough Law sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 52 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $706–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 52 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 Tough Law and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tough Law's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–1.5M

best case 7.3M (Dead Cells)

Games like Tough Law

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–1.5M copies

≈ $6.1M–$10.0M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action Roguelike (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: Dead Cells at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $38.4M–$103.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (3 of 8) and Hack and Slash (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry 2D + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games 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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Castle Crashers® 2012	Est. copies ≈ 8.9M–14.5M 6.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $36.7M–$98.7M after Steam's cut $66.8M–$151.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	141k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	2DOnline Co-Op
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Lost Castle / 失落城堡 2016	Est. copies ≈ 998k–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	24k reviews Very Positive	4 Player LocalAction Roguelike
Dead Cells 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.1M 8.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $38.4M–$103.2M after Steam's cut $69.8M–$158.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	184k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureAction Roguelike
Dust: An Elysian Tail 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.0M–$13.4M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	19k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionPlatformer
MapleStory 2012	Est. copies ≈ 983k–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	16k reviews Mixed	MMORPG2D Platformer
Blasphemous 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 540k–878k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.7M–$18.0M after Steam's cut $12.1M–$27.6M before Steam's cut	$44.99	22k reviews Very Positive	CombatFantasy