How much revenue did The Talos Principle: Reawakened make?

$326k–$876k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Talos Principle: Reawakened sell?

Q: How many copies did The Talos Principle: Reawakened sell?

30k to 48k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30k–48k; $326k–$876k after Steam's cut $593k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 The Talos Principle: Reawakened and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Talos Principle: Reawakened's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 437k–1.2M

best case 2.4M (The Talos Principle)

Games like The Talos Principle: Reawakened

A typical game among these

≈ 437k–1.2M copies

≈ $4.2M–$18.3M 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Talos Principle at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 493 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Philosophical, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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The Talos Principle 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 333k–541k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle Story Rich
The Talos Principle 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut $27.8M–$63.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePhilosophical
The Turing Test 2016	Est. copies ≈ 335k–544k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	8k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleSci-fi
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Manifold Garden 2020	Est. copies ≈ 213k–346k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleSurreal
The Witness 2016	Est. copies ≈ 900k–1.5M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.9M–$26.6M after Steam's cut $18.0M–$40.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	22k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleExploration
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