How much revenue did The Talos Principle: Reawakened make?

$318k–$856k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Talos Principle: Reawakened sell?

Q: How many copies did The Talos Principle: Reawakened sell?

29k to 47k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29k–47k; $318k–$856k after Steam's cut $579k–$1.3M before the cut; from 1k 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 The Talos Principle: Reawakened out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Talos Principle: Reawakened's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 434k–1.2M

best case 2.4M (The Talos Principle)

Games like The Talos Principle: Reawakened

The middle of these games

≈ 434k–1.2M copies

≈ $4.2M–$18.0M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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 Talos Principle at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 493 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Philosophical, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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