How much revenue did TV Kid make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TV Kid sell?

Q: How many copies did TV Kid sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 58 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before the cut; from 58 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 TV Kid out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TV Kid's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 142k–307k

best case 349k (Tiny Rogues)

Games like TV Kid

The middle of these games

≈ 142k–307k copies

≈ $386k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Tiny Rogues at ≈ 266k–432k copies, ≈ $730k–$2.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 258 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-lite (5 of 8) and Bullet Hell (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $10.
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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