How much revenue did Torment: Tides of Numenera make?

$1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Torment: Tides of Numenera sell?

Q: How many copies did Torment: Tides of Numenera sell?

151k to 245k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 151k–245k; $1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$6.0M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Torment: Tides of Numenera and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Torment: Tides of Numenera's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–9.5M

best case 28.0M (Baldur's Gate 3)

Games like Torment: Tides of Numenera

A typical game among these

≈ 3.0M–9.5M copies

≈ $39.6M–$113.6M after Steam's cut

from ~128k 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 Hack and Slash (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: Baldur's Gate 3 at ≈ 21.3M–34.6M copies, ≈ $351.5M–$945.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 268k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (4 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Choices Matter, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, 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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