How much revenue did Tales of Cosmos make?

$9k–$24k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tales of Cosmos sell?

Q: How many copies did Tales of Cosmos sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 51 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $9k–$24k after Steam's cut $16k–$36k before Steam's cut; from 51 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 Tales of Cosmos and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tales of Cosmos's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.1M–26.3M

best case 37.9M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)

Games like Tales of Cosmos

A typical game among these

≈ 9.1M–26.3M copies

≈ $115.3M–$452.1M after Steam's cut

from ~342k 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: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.9M–46.9M copies, ≈ $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (5 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Shooter, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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