How much revenue did The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales make?

$287k–$772k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales sell?

Q: How many copies did The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales sell?

70k to 113k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 70k–113k; $287k–$772k after Steam's cut $522k–$1.2M before the cut; from 3k 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 The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 34.4M–56.7M

best case 132.9M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales

The middle of these games

≈ 34.4M–56.7M copies

≈ $602.6M–$797.6M after Steam's cut

from ~940k 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: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.3M–164.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $35.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 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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