How much revenue did Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial make?

$285k–$766k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial sell?

Q: How many copies did Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial sell?

58k to 94k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 58k–94k; $285k–$766k after Steam's cut $518k–$1.2M before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 79k–104k

best case 362k (Returnal™)

Games like Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial

A typical game among these

≈ 79k–104k copies

≈ $456k–$725k 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.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Returnal™ at ≈ 276k–448k copies, ≈ $4.6M–$12.2M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 613 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (5 of 8) and Metroidvania (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Roguevania + Lovecraftian + Action Roguelike; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 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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