How much revenue did Tales From The Arcade: Starship Murder make?

$653–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tales From The Arcade: Starship Murder sell?

Q: How many copies did Tales From The Arcade: Starship Murder sell?

794 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 794–1k; $653–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 32 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 Arcade: Starship Murder out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tales From The Arcade: Starship Murder's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 113k–305k

best case 448k (Yog-Sothoth’s Yard)

Games like Tales From The Arcade: Starship Murder

The middle of these games

≈ 113k–305k copies

≈ $664k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Visual Novel (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: Yog-Sothoth’s Yard at ≈ 341k–555k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 976 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 287 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (4 of 8) and Anime (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Dating Sim, priced around $11.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, 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 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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