How much revenue did The Forgotten Tapes: Twisted Forms make?

The Forgotten Tapes: Twisted Forms is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did The Forgotten Tapes: Twisted Forms sell?

Q: How many copies did The Forgotten Tapes: Twisted Forms sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; from 13 reviews (Mixed)

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 The Forgotten Tapes: Twisted Forms and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Forgotten Tapes: Twisted Forms's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–17k

best case 437k (The Talos Principle 2)

Games like The Forgotten Tapes: Twisted Forms

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–17k copies

≈ $8k–$102k after Steam's cut

from ~152 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: The Talos Principle 2 at ≈ 333k–541k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 60 reviews in their first month; the range was 23 to 5k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (5 of 8) and Action-Adventure (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Puzzle + Story Rich + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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