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How many copies did Tetragon sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut
from 47 reviews (Mostly 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 Tetragon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tetragon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 247k–6.9M
best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)
Games like Tetragon

The middle of these games

≈ 247k–6.9M copies

≈ $489k–$44.2M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $51.8M–$139.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2007 to 2019, and none of them 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 36 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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7.9x vs typical
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