How much revenue did Tentacle Prawn: (Actually) A Cthulhu Dating Sim make?

$102–$275 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tentacle Prawn: (Actually) A Cthulhu Dating Sim sell?

Q: How many copies did Tentacle Prawn: (Actually) A Cthulhu Dating Sim sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $102–$275 after Steam's cut $185–$423 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Tentacle Prawn: (Actually) A Cthulhu Dating Sim and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tentacle Prawn: (Actually) A Cthulhu Dating Sim's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 114k–725k

best case 1.1M (Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut)

Games like Tentacle Prawn: (Actually) A Cthulhu Dating Sim

A typical game among these

≈ 114k–725k copies

≈ $837k–$6.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Horror (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: Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut at ≈ 856k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 152 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (3 of 8) and Lovecraftian (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Choices Matter, priced around $18.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 2 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 38 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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