How much revenue did Tomba! Special Edition make?

$108k–$291k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tomba! Special Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Tomba! Special Edition sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 794 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $108k–$291k after Steam's cut $197k–$448k before Steam's cut; from 794 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 Tomba! Special Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tomba! Special Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 65k–131k

best case 660k (DuckTales: Remastered)

Games like Tomba! Special Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 65k–131k copies

≈ $690k–$728k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: DuckTales: Remastered at ≈ 503k–817k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.6M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 454 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (8 of 8) and 2D Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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