How much revenue did Tales of Sintra: The Dark Vortex make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tales of Sintra: The Dark Vortex sell?

Q: How many copies did Tales of Sintra: The Dark Vortex sell?

620 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 620–1k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 25 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 Tales of Sintra: The Dark Vortex and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tales of Sintra: The Dark Vortex's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–619k

best case 2.8M (SteamVR)

Games like Tales of Sintra: The Dark Vortex

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–619k copies

≈ $64k–$1.5M 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: SteamVR at ≈ 2.2M–3.5M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 495 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Swordplay (7 of 8) and VR (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Software.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 7 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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