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How many copies did Day of the Tentacle Remastered sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 197k–320k
$811k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut
from 5k 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 Day of the Tentacle Remastered and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Day of the Tentacle Remastered's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 237k–532k
best case 1.2M (Deponia)
Games like Day of the Tentacle Remastered

A typical game among these

≈ 237k–532k copies

≈ $1.2M–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Deponia at ≈ 930k–1.5M copies, ≈ $2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Comedy (8 of 8) and Point & Click (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Point & Click + Comedy, priced around $10.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2009 to 2015, and none of them 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 61 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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2.7x vs typical
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