How much revenue did The Emerald Tablet make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Emerald Tablet sell?

Q: How many copies did The Emerald Tablet sell?

634 to 1k copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 634–1k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut; from 22 reviews (Mixed)

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 Emerald Tablet out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including The Emerald Tablet's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 52k–56k

best case 1.4M (Metaphor: ReFantazio)

Games like The Emerald Tablet

The middle of these games

≈ 52k–56k copies

≈ $163k–$300k 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.

All 7 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Metaphor: ReFantazio at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $20.5M–$55.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

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 12 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (4 of 7) and Time Management (4 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with JRPG + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry RPG + JRPG + Anime; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 2 of your 7 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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