How much revenue did Steam Tactics make?

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

How many copies did Steam Tactics sell?

Q: How many copies did Steam Tactics sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 59 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut; from 59 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 Steam Tactics out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Steam Tactics's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 708–25k

best case 33k (Iron Danger)

Games like Steam Tactics

The middle of these games

≈ 708–25k copies

≈ $4k–$165k after Steam's cut

from ~171 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: Iron Danger at ≈ 25k–41k copies, ≈ $139k–$373k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 91 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 349.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tactical RPG (7 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $20.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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