How much revenue did Tangle Tower make?

$1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tangle Tower sell?

Q: How many copies did Tangle Tower sell?

196k to 319k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 196k–319k; $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before Steam's cut; from 7k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Tangle Tower and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tangle Tower's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 568k–917k

best case 5.0M (Disco Elysium - The Final Cut)

Games like Tangle Tower

A typical game among these

≈ 568k–917k copies

≈ $4.1M–$8.1M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: Disco Elysium - The Final Cut at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $41.7M–$112.0M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 75 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and Detective (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry RPG + Isometric + Choices Matter; a typical game here doesn't.
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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