How much revenue did Tales from The Dancing Moon make?

$5k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tales from The Dancing Moon sell?

Q: How many copies did Tales from The Dancing Moon sell?

918 to 1k copies, based on its 37 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 918–1k; $5k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before the cut; from 37 reviews (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 Tales from The Dancing Moon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tales from The Dancing Moon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–38k

best case 193k (The Test: Hypothesis Rising)

Games like Tales from The Dancing Moon

The middle of these games

≈ 12k–38k copies

≈ $73k–$134k after Steam's cut

from ~469 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Story Rich (4 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: The Test: Hypothesis Rising at ≈ 147k–239k copies, ≈ $80k–$216k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 167 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 73 to 449.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (4 of 8) and Choices Matter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Multiple Endings, priced around $2.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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