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How many copies did Tasty Planet sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 17k–28k
$28k–$76k after Steam's cut $51k–$117k before Steam's cut
from 499 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 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tasty Planet's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 821k–1.2M
best case 1.2M (CARRION)
Games like Tasty Planet

A typical game among these

≈ 821k–1.2M copies

≈ $5.4M–$9.4M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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: CARRION at ≈ 895k–1.5M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 6k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Villain Protagonist (7 of 8) and Gore (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Villain Protagonist + Gore, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 1997 to 2021, 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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SteamSpy 500k–1M
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≈ 1.5M–2.4M
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GoreViolent
Tyranny
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RPGChoices Matter
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Free
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≈ 895k–1.5M
1.6x vs typical
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$19.99
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Very Positive
Villain ProtagonistPixel Graphics

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