How much revenue did Tomato Way make?

$40k–$106k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tomato Way sell?

Q: How many copies did Tomato Way sell?

36k to 59k copies, based on its 867 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 36k–59k; $40k–$106k after Steam's cut $72k–$164k before the cut; from 867 reviews (Very 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 Tomato Way out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tomato Way's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 92k–283k

best case 3.7M (Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy)

Games like Tomato Way

The middle of these games

≈ 92k–283k copies

≈ $147k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $6.2M–$16.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Psychological Horror (8 of 8) and Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Physics, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Physics + Philosophical + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 1 of your 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).

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