How much revenue did The Tiny Bang Story make?

$577k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Tiny Bang Story sell?

Q: How many copies did The Tiny Bang Story sell?

420k to 683k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 420k–683k; $577k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.4M before Steam's cut; from 7k 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 Tiny Bang Story and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Tiny Bang Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 98–381

best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)

Games like The Tiny Bang Story

A typical game among these

≈ 98–381 copies

≈ $104–$814 after Steam's cut

from ~4 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.5M–15.4M copies, ≈ $52.0M–$139.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 3 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Physics (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Puzzle-Platformer + 3D Platformer + Sci-fi; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 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 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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