How much revenue did TUNIC make?

$3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TUNIC sell?

Q: How many copies did TUNIC sell?

464k to 753k copies, based on its 19k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 464k–753k; $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.8M before Steam's cut; from 19k 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 TUNIC and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including TUNIC's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 20k–218k

best case 408k (Hello Kitty Island Adventure)

Games like TUNIC

A typical game among these

≈ 20k–218k copies

≈ $1.6M–$4.7M after Steam's cut

from ~867 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

1 of the 3 similar games is a hit.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Hello Kitty Island Adventure at ≈ 311k–505k copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (3 of 3) and Abstract (1 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cozy + Open World, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 1 of the 3 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 36 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
Hello Kitty Island Adventure 2025	Est. copies ≈ 311k–505k 14x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.1M before Steam's cut	$39.99	13k reviews Very Positive	CozyOpen World
Unbound: Worlds Apart Prologue 2020	Est. copies ≈ 22k–35k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	867 reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayIndie
stikir 2019	Est. copies ≈ 9k–14k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before Steam's cut	$2.99	307 reviews Very Positive	SurrealGame Development