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How many copies did Tails of Iron sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 372k–604k
$2.6M–$6.9M after Steam's cut $4.6M–$10.6M before the cut
from 15k reviews (Very Positive)

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

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 712k–1.1M
best case 39.3M (Black Myth: Wukong)
Games like Tails of Iron

The middle of these games

≈ 712k–1.1M copies

≈ $6.3M–$18.6M after Steam's cut

from ~26k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.7M copies, ≈ $494.5M–$1329.5M 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 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 836k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Souls-like (8 of 8) and Action RPG (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Mythology + Story Rich + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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