How much revenue did Tales of Zestiria make?

$6.3M–$16.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tales of Zestiria sell?

Q: How many copies did Tales of Zestiria sell?

455k to 739k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 455k–739k; $6.3M–$16.8M after Steam's cut $11.4M–$25.9M before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 Tales of Zestiria and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tales of Zestiria's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.0M

best case 4.1M (MONSTER HUNTER RISE)

Games like Tales of Zestiria

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–2.0M copies

≈ $19.1M–$34.8M after Steam's cut

from ~50k 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: MONSTER HUNTER RISE at ≈ 3.2M–5.1M copies, ≈ $34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 18k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (5 of 8) and JRPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hunting + Character Customization, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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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