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How many copies did Tenebris: Terra Incognita sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 12k–19k
$64k–$172k after Steam's cut $117k–$265k before Steam's cut
from 470 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 Tenebris: Terra Incognita and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tenebris: Terra Incognita's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–5.7M
best case 27.3M (The Forest)
Games like Tenebris: Terra Incognita

A typical game among these

≈ 2.9M–5.7M copies

≈ $37.3M–$96.7M after Steam's cut

from ~88k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.8M–33.7M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Turn-Based Strategy (5 of 8) and Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Survival + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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 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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