How much revenue did Tape to Tape make?

$503k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tape to Tape sell?

Q: How many copies did Tape to Tape sell?

91k to 149k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 91k–149k; $503k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $914k–$2.1M before the cut; from 4k 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 Tape to Tape out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tape to Tape's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 838–15k

best case 26k (Cursed to Golf)

Games like Tape to Tape

The middle of these games

≈ 838–15k copies

≈ $1k–$97k after Steam's cut

from ~120 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Sports (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Cursed to Golf at ≈ 20k–32k copies, ≈ $109k–$293k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 57 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 471.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sports (3 of 8) and Arcade (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Golf, priced around $20.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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Cursed to Golf 2022	Est. copies ≈ 20k–32k 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $109k–$293k after Steam's cut $198k–$451k before the cut	$19.99	800 reviews Mostly Positive	Rogue-likeDifficult
RoboDunk 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$40k before the cut	$14.99	95 reviews Very Positive	SportsArcade
Golf Odyssey 2 DX 2023	Est. copies ≈ 198–322 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $381–$1k after Steam's cut $692–$2k before the cut	$6.99	8 reviews 8 user reviews	DifficultPhysics
Golfie 2023	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $51k–$138k after Steam's cut $93k–$213k before the cut	$17.99	419 reviews Mixed	PvPAction
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Surmount 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$61k before the cut	$14.99	145 reviews Very Positive	ActionProcedural Generation
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