How much revenue did Towertale make?

$5k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Towertale sell?

Q: How many copies did Towertale sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 69 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before Steam's cut; from 69 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 Towertale and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Towertale's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 716k–941k

best case 928k (NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139...)

Games like Towertale

A typical game among these

≈ 716k–941k copies

≈ $6.3M–$16.4M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139... at ≈ 707k–1.1M copies, ≈ $11.7M–$31.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (5 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + JRPG, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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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