How much revenue did TY the Tasmanian Tiger make?

$468k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TY the Tasmanian Tiger sell?

Q: How many copies did TY the Tasmanian Tiger sell?

114k to 184k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 114k–184k; $468k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $851k–$1.9M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left TY the Tasmanian Tiger out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TY the Tasmanian Tiger's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 310k–712k

best case 2.4M (A Hat in Time)

Games like TY the Tasmanian Tiger

The middle of these games

≈ 310k–712k copies

≈ $1.9M–$5.3M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is 3D Platformer (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: A Hat in Time at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.2M–$40.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (4 of 8) and Classic (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Collectathon, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Cute + Great Soundtrack + Female Protagonist; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2023, 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 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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