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How many copies did Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 183k–298k
$1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before Steam's cut
from 6k 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 Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 447k–499k
best case 1.3M (Battle Brothers)
Games like Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

A typical game among these

≈ 447k–499k copies

≈ $4.9M–$7.5M 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Battle Brothers at ≈ 1.0M–1.6M copies, ≈ $8.3M–$22.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 13k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Turn-Based Strategy (7 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with CRPG + Character Customization, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Character Customization; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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