How much revenue did TailQuest Defense make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TailQuest Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did TailQuest Defense sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 43 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut; from 43 reviews (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 TailQuest Defense and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TailQuest Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 598k–1.0M

best case 2.4M (A Hat in Time)

Games like TailQuest Defense

A typical game among these

≈ 598k–1.0M copies

≈ $3.3M–$13.1M after Steam's cut

from ~19k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Hat in Time at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.2M–$40.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (7 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Collectathon, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, 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 61 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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