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How many copies did Tanuki Sunset sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 14k–23k
$57k–$154k after Steam's cut $104k–$238k before the cut
from 562 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 Tanuki Sunset out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tanuki Sunset's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–3k
best case 1.0M (Riders Republic)
Games like Tanuki Sunset

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–3k copies

≈ $4k–$8k after Steam's cut

from ~61 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Riders Republic at ≈ 788k–1.3M copies, ≈ $8.7M–$23.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 44 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8 to 3k.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Racing (7 of 8) and Sports (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Skateboarding + Exploration, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Sandbox + Character Customization; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 1 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 38 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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