How much revenue did Thomas Was Alone make?

$1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Thomas Was Alone sell?

Q: How many copies did Thomas Was Alone sell?

594k to 965k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 594k–965k; $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.7M before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 Thomas Was Alone and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Thomas Was Alone's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 92k–847k

best case 5.4M (BattleBlock Theater®)

Games like Thomas Was Alone

A typical game among these

≈ 92k–847k copies

≈ $444k–$4.3M 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.

Best case: BattleBlock Theater® at ≈ 4.1M–6.6M copies, ≈ $16.8M–$45.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 142 reviews in their first month; the range was 84 to 168.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (6 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2021, 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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BattleBlock Theater® 2014	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.6M 20x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.8M–$45.3M after Steam's cut $30.6M–$69.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	73k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-op Platformer
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