How much revenue did Temtem make?

$12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Temtem sell?

Q: How many copies did Temtem sell?

975k to 1.6M copies, based on its 39k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 975k–1.6M; $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.9M before Steam's cut; from 39k 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 Temtem and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Temtem's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 402k–1.3M

best case 16.0M (Palworld)

Games like Temtem

A typical game among these

≈ 402k–1.3M copies

≈ $3.0M–$8.5M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Palworld at ≈ 12.2M–19.8M copies, ≈ $100.5M–$270.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 972 to 469k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (4 of 8) and Creature Collector (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $30.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 52 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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