How much revenue did Tantal make?

$128–$345 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tantal sell?

Q: How many copies did Tantal sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $128–$345 after Steam's cut $233–$531 before the cut; from 19 reviews (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 Tantal out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tantal's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–28k

best case 76k (Intergalactic Bubbles)

Games like Tantal

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–28k copies

≈ $4k–$26k after Steam's cut

from ~87 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Intergalactic Bubbles at ≈ 58k–95k copies, ≈ $32k–$86k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 38.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Arcade, priced around $2.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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Intergalactic Bubbles 2015	Est. copies ≈ 58k–95k 14x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $32k–$86k after Steam's cut $58k–$132k before the cut	$1.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	CasualIndie
Murtop 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut	$4.99	89 reviews Very Positive	ActionArcade
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