How much revenue did Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds make?

$59k–$159k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds sell?

Q: How many copies did Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds sell?

27k to 44k copies, based on its 648 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–44k; $59k–$159k after Steam's cut $108k–$245k before Steam's cut; from 648 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 Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–5.2M

best case 10.7M (Hotline Miami)

Games like Tasty Planet: Back for Seconds

A typical game among these

≈ 2.7M–5.2M copies

≈ $20.0M–$43.5M after Steam's cut

from ~69k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Fast-Paced (2 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: Hotline Miami at ≈ 8.1M–13.2M copies, ≈ $22.3M–$60.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fast-Paced (2 of 8) and Gore (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Violent + Top-Down, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Top-Down + Isometric; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Hotline Miami 2012	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.2M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.3M–$60.0M after Steam's cut $40.6M–$92.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	128k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great SoundtrackViolent
XCOM® 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4.6M–7.4M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut $45.6M–$103.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	110k reviews Very Positive	IsometricTurn-Based Combat
Prison Architect 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $31.0M–$83.3M after Steam's cut $56.3M–$128.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	77k reviews Very Positive	SimulationBuilding
Last Epoch 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $28.3M–$76.0M after Steam's cut $51.4M–$116.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	118k reviews Mostly Positive	Action RPGLoot
The Binding of Isaac 2011	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.6M before Steam's cut	$4.99	63k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-like
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.2M–$43.5M after Steam's cut $29.4M–$66.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	80k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackGore
Battlerite 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	59k reviews Very Positive	PvPMultiplayer
Eternal Return 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	69k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayAnime