How much revenue did Foretales make?

$161k–$433k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Foretales sell?

Q: How many copies did Foretales sell?

29k to 48k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29k–48k; $161k–$433k after Steam's cut $292k–$665k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Foretales out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Foretales's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–4.4M

best case 8.5M (Detroit: Become Human)

Games like Foretales

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–4.4M copies

≈ $17.2M–$35.3M after Steam's cut

from ~51k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.5M–10.5M copies, ≈ $71.2M–$191.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Game (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 2 of your 8 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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