How much revenue did Tarot for Storytelling make?

$54–$146 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tarot for Storytelling sell?

Q: How many copies did Tarot for Storytelling sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $54–$146 after Steam's cut $99–$224 before the cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Thin evidence: 4 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Tarot for Storytelling out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tarot for Storytelling's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 893k–3.6M

best case 5.8M (Blender)

Games like Tarot for Storytelling

The middle of these games

≈ 893k–3.6M copies

≈ $11.3M after Steam's cut

from ~27k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Blender at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 315 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Software (7 of 8) and Game Development (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Animation & Modeling + Software.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 2 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 61 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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