How much revenue did Tasty Planet make?

$28k–$75k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tasty Planet sell?

Q: How many copies did Tasty Planet sell?

17k to 27k copies, based on its 490 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $28k–$75k after Steam's cut $50k–$115k before the cut; from 490 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 Tasty Planet out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tasty Planet's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 815k–1.2M

best case 1.2M (CARRION)

Games like Tasty Planet

The middle of these games

≈ 815k–1.2M copies

≈ $5.4M–$9.4M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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: CARRION at ≈ 882k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.8M–$13.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Villain Protagonist (7 of 8) and Gore (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Villain Protagonist + Gore, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 1997 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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