How much revenue did The Tale of Onogoro make?

$15k–$40k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Tale of Onogoro sell?

Q: How many copies did The Tale of Onogoro sell?

2k copies, based on its 62 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k; $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$61k before the cut; from 62 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 The Tale of Onogoro out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Tale of Onogoro's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 912–3k

best case 53k (Firmament)

Games like The Tale of Onogoro

The middle of these games

≈ 912–3k copies

≈ $7k–$21k after Steam's cut

from ~44 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Firmament at ≈ 40k–66k copies, ≈ $389k–$1.0M 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 18 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 815.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (6 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Exploration, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Mystery + Walking Simulator + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 1 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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