How much revenue did Tomato Jones make?

$24k–$66k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tomato Jones sell?

Q: How many copies did Tomato Jones sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 427 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $24k–$66k after Steam's cut $44k–$101k before Steam's cut; from 427 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 Tomato Jones and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tomato Jones's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 472k–1.6M

best case 5.3M (Little Nightmares)

Games like Tomato Jones

A typical game among these

≈ 472k–1.6M copies

≈ $2.3M–$16.8M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Little Nightmares at ≈ 4.0M–6.5M copies, ≈ $22.1M–$59.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 358 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Dark (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Little Nightmares 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M 8.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.1M–$59.3M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	117k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
Little Nightmares II 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 4.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.0M–$32.3M after Steam's cut $21.8M–$49.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	59k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAdventure
Outcore: Desktop Adventure 2022	Est. copies ≈ 457k–743k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	18k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventurePsychological Horror
ibb & obb 2014	Est. copies ≈ 383k–623k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.2M before Steam's cut	$11.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Co-opOnline Co-Op
Antichamber 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's cut $11.2M–$25.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	18k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleFirst-Person
The Swapper 2013	Est. copies ≈ 480k–780k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	8k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleSci-fi
Seen 2019	Est. copies ≈ 288k–467k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $78k–$210k after Steam's cut $142k–$324k before Steam's cut	$0.99	10k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessIndie
In Sound Mind 2021	Est. copies ≈ 174k–283k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$4.9M before Steam's cut	$24.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Horror Psychological Horror