How much revenue did Ells Tales: Egg make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ells Tales: Egg sell?

Q: How many copies did Ells Tales: Egg sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 193 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut; from 193 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 Ells Tales: Egg out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ells Tales: Egg's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–5k

best case 63k (Oik 2)

Games like Ells Tales: Egg

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–5k copies

≈ $2k–$16k after Steam's cut

from ~64 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Oik 2 at ≈ 48k–78k copies, ≈ $13k–$35k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 32 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8 to 73.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and Clicker (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Physics + Clicker, priced around $1.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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