How much revenue did The Bard's Tale Trilogy make?

$196k–$526k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Bard's Tale Trilogy sell?

Q: How many copies did The Bard's Tale Trilogy sell?

47k to 77k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 47k–77k; $196k–$526k after Steam's cut $356k–$809k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 The Bard's Tale Trilogy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Bard's Tale Trilogy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–25k

best case 300k (Legend of Grimrock 2)

Games like The Bard's Tale Trilogy

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–25k copies

≈ $36k–$96k after Steam's cut

from ~286 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Legend of Grimrock 2 at ≈ 229k–372k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and Grid-Based Movement (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Grid-Based Movement, priced around $24.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2019, 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 36 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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