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How many copies did Adrian's Tale sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 50–81
$138–$368 after Steam's cut $250–$566 before Steam's cut
from 2 reviews (2 user reviews)
Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Adrian's Tale and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Adrian's Tale's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 407k–906k
best case 12.2M (Hogwarts Legacy)
Games like Adrian's Tale

A typical game among these

≈ 407k–906k copies

≈ $2.1M–$6.7M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

Best case: Hogwarts Legacy at ≈ 9.3M–15.1M copies, ≈ $153.2M–$412.0M 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 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 464 to 171k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and Action RPG (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Magic + Open World, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Magic + Character Customization + Fantasy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2007 to 2023, and none of them 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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