How much revenue did A Mortician's Tale make?

$135k–$364k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Mortician's Tale sell?

Q: How many copies did A Mortician's Tale sell?

49k to 80k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 49k–80k; $135k–$364k after Steam's cut $246k–$560k before the cut; from 1k 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 A Mortician's Tale out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Mortician's Tale's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.1M

best case 16.5M (Portal)

Games like A Mortician's Tale

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–2.1M copies

≈ $4.7M–$15.8M after Steam's cut

from ~32k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal at ≈ 12.5M–20.4M copies, ≈ $34.5M–$92.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (5 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Female Protagonist, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Choices Matter + Female Protagonist + Time Travel; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2021, 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 31 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).

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