How much revenue did Of Blades & Tails make?

$42k–$113k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Of Blades & Tails sell?

Q: How many copies did Of Blades & Tails sell?

10k to 17k copies, based on its 412 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–17k; $42k–$113k after Steam's cut $77k–$174k before Steam's cut; from 412 reviews (Mostly 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 Of Blades & Tails and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Of Blades & Tails's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–83k

best case 159k (Low Magic Age)

Games like Of Blades & Tails

A typical game among these

≈ 27k–83k copies

≈ $104k–$711k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Low Magic Age at ≈ 121k–197k copies, ≈ $500k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 631 reviews in their first month; the range was 144 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party-Based RPG (5 of 8) and Turn-Based Combat (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeons & Dragons + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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