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How many copies did Tumbleweed Destiny sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 10k–16k
$8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$33k before the cut
from 390 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 Tumbleweed Destiny out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tumbleweed Destiny's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–55k
best case 323k ((the) Gnorp Apologue)
Games like Tumbleweed Destiny

The middle of these games

≈ 41k–55k copies

≈ $63k–$113k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: (the) Gnorp Apologue at ≈ 246k–400k copies, ≈ $474k–$1.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 749 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 147 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Clicker (5 of 8) and Idler (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $16. The breakout hits carry Building + Economy + Cute; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 3 of your 8 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 38 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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