How much revenue did Tostchu make?

$34k–$92k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tostchu sell?

Q: How many copies did Tostchu sell?

16k to 25k copies, based on its 625 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–25k; $34k–$92k after Steam's cut $62k–$141k before Steam's cut; from 625 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 Tostchu and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tostchu's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 430k–1.1M

best case 2.0M (The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty)

Games like Tostchu

A typical game among these

≈ 430k–1.1M copies

≈ $3.3M–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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 Visual Novel (4 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: The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (4 of 8) and Cooking (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Historical, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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 36 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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Cooking Simulator 2019	Est. copies ≈ 568k–923k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$12.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	20k reviews Very Positive	SimulationCooking
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut 2023	Est. copies ≈ 856k–1.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.5M before Steam's cut	$17.99	35k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelChoices Matter
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut $7.4M–$16.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	60k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelHistorical
Cruelty Squad 2021	Est. copies ≈ 621k–1.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CapitalismSurreal
REKA 2024	Est. copies ≈ 87k–141k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $476k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $866k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessBuilding
Sultan's Game 2025	Est. copies ≈ 876k–1.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.0M–$16.2M after Steam's cut $10.9M–$24.9M before Steam's cut	$24.99	35k reviews Very Positive	RPGSimulation
Cooking Companions 2021	Est. copies ≈ 30k–49k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $124k–$333k after Steam's cut $225k–$513k before Steam's cut	$14.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelAnime
The Breadmaker 2022	Est. copies ≈ 198–322 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $272–$731 after Steam's cut $494–$1k before Steam's cut	$4.99	8 reviews 8 user reviews	Horror Psychological Horror