How much revenue did Tales From The Arcade: Starship Murder make?

$653–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tales From The Arcade: Starship Murder sell?

Q: How many copies did Tales From The Arcade: Starship Murder sell?

794 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 794–1k; $653–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 32 reviews (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 From The Arcade: Starship Murder and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tales From The Arcade: Starship Murder's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 115k–315k

best case 453k (Yog-Sothoth’s Yard)

Games like Tales From The Arcade: Starship Murder

A typical game among these

≈ 115k–315k copies

≈ $683k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

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: Yog-Sothoth’s Yard at ≈ 345k–561k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 976 reviews in their first month; the range was 287 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (4 of 8) and Anime (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Dating Sim, priced around $11.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 2 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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Yog-Sothoth’s Yard 2023	Est. copies ≈ 345k–561k 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut	$10.99	14k reviews Very Positive	SimulationDating Sim
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector 2025	Est. copies ≈ 68k–110k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $465k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $845k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$24.99	3k reviews Very Positive	RPGDice
AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative 2022	Est. copies ≈ 94k–153k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelMystery
Citizen Sleeper 2022	Est. copies ≈ 264k–429k 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$6.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	11k reviews Very Positive	RPGDice
The Test: Final Revelation 2020	Est. copies ≈ 133k–216k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $73k–$196k after Steam's cut $132k–$301k before Steam's cut	$1.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationChoose Your Own Adventure
There is No GreenDam 2019	Est. copies ≈ 57k–93k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayVisual Novel
Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator 2023	Est. copies ≈ 232k–377k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $446k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $811k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$6.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	IdlerSimulation
Nunholy 2025	Est. copies ≈ 134k–218k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $295k–$793k after Steam's cut $536k–$1.2M before Steam's cut	$7.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Female ProtagonistSexual Content