How much revenue did Ale & Tale Tavern make?

$1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ale & Tale Tavern sell?

Q: How many copies did Ale & Tale Tavern sell?

259k to 422k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 259k–422k; $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.4M before Steam's cut; from 10k 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 Ale & Tale Tavern and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ale & Tale Tavern's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 790k–3.4M

best case 6.5M (The Sims™ 4)

Games like Ale & Tale Tavern

A typical game among these

≈ 790k–3.4M copies

≈ $11.2M–$20.4M 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.

Best case: The Sims™ 4 at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 55k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Sandbox (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Character Customization.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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