How much revenue did Tales of Sintra: The Dark Vortex make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tales of Sintra: The Dark Vortex sell?

Q: How many copies did Tales of Sintra: The Dark Vortex sell?

620 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 620–1k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut; from 25 reviews (Mostly 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 of Sintra: The Dark Vortex out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tales of Sintra: The Dark Vortex's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–617k

best case 2.8M (SteamVR)

Games like Tales of Sintra: The Dark Vortex

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–617k copies

≈ $63k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SteamVR at ≈ 2.1M–3.5M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 495 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Swordplay (7 of 8) and VR (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Software.
The era: Only 3 of your 7 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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