How much revenue did Tumblestone make?

$568k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tumblestone sell?

Q: How many copies did Tumblestone sell?

83k to 134k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 83k–134k; $568k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before the cut; from 2k 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 Tumblestone out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Tumblestone's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37.7M–109.5M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Tumblestone

The middle of these games

≈ 37.7M–109.5M copies

≈ $67.6M–$241.0M after Steam's cut

from ~1.1M reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (2 of 4), 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (2 of 4) and Survival (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2018, and none of them 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 38 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Garry's Mod 2006	Est. copies ≈ 79.8M–129.6M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut $398.4M–$906.5M before the cut	$9.99	1.3M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxModdable
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.8M–50.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Among Us 2018	Est. copies ≈ 22.7M–36.8M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $31.1M–$83.6M after Steam's cut $56.5M–$128.6M before the cut	$4.99	745k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerSocial Deduction