How much revenue did Tough Law make?

$706–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tough Law sell?

Q: How many copies did Tough Law sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 52 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $706–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 52 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 Tough Law out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tough Law's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–1.5M

best case 7.3M (Dead Cells)

Games like Tough Law

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–1.5M copies

≈ $6.1M–$9.4M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action Roguelike (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: Dead Cells at ≈ 5.6M–9.0M copies, ≈ $38.2M–$102.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (3 of 8) and Hack and Slash (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry 2D + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, 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 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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