How many copies did Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim: Black GOAT of the Woods Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim: Black GOAT of the Woods Edition sell?

61 to 99 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Q: How much revenue did Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim: Black GOAT of the Woods Edition make?

$184–$495 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 61–99; $184–$495 after Steam's cut $335–$762 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim: Black GOAT of the Woods Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim: Black GOAT of the Woods Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 96k–119k

best case 881k (Darkest Dungeon® II)

Games like Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim: Black GOAT of the Woods Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 96k–119k copies

≈ $690k–$937k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Exploration (2 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: Darkest Dungeon® II at ≈ 671k–1.1M copies, ≈ $7.4M–$19.9M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 102 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (2 of 8) and Horror (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Tactics + Dungeon Crawler, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Turn-Based Tactics + Dungeon Crawler + Rogue-lite; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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).

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