How much revenue did Ale & Tale Tavern make?

$1.1M–$2.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ale & Tale Tavern sell?

Q: How many copies did Ale & Tale Tavern sell?

256k to 416k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 256k–416k; $1.1M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.4M before the cut; from 10k 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 Ale & Tale Tavern out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ale & Tale Tavern's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 786k–3.4M

best case 6.5M (The Sims™ 4)

Games like Ale & Tale Tavern

The middle of these games

≈ 786k–3.4M copies

≈ $11.2M–$20.3M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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 Sims™ 4 at ≈ 5.0M–8.0M copies.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 55k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Sandbox (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Character Customization.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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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