How much revenue did Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG make?

$13k–$36k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG sell?

Q: How many copies did Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 131 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$55k before the cut; from 131 reviews (Mixed)

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 Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–92k

best case 372k (Epistory - Typing Chronicles)

Games like Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–92k copies

≈ $38k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~369 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (2 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Epistory - Typing Chronicles at ≈ 283k–460k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 60 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 226.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action-Adventure (2 of 8) and Combat (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Typing + Narrative, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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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