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How many copies did TaleSpire sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 129k–210k
$889k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before the cut
from 5k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 142k–273k
best case 388k (Pool 2D - Poolians)
Games like TaleSpire

The middle of these games

≈ 142k–273k copies

≈ $2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

4 of your 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: Pool 2D - Poolians at ≈ 296k–481k copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 262 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 25 to 613.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Turn-Based Strategy (4 of 7) and Turn-Based Tactics (3 of 7).
The winners
Winners here lead with Pool + Simulation.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2023, 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 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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