How much revenue did A Twisted Tale make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Twisted Tale sell?

Q: How many copies did A Twisted Tale sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 72 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before Steam's cut; from 72 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 A Twisted Tale and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Twisted Tale's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 153k–368k

best case 431k (Hidden Folks)

Games like A Twisted Tale

A typical game among these

≈ 153k–368k copies

≈ $437k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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.

Best case: Hidden Folks at ≈ 329k–534k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 474 reviews in their first month; the range was 13 to 699.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hand-drawn (8 of 8) and Point & Click (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hidden Object + Hand-drawn, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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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