How much revenue did Temtem make?

$12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Temtem sell?

Q: How many copies did Temtem sell?

975k to 1.6M copies, based on its 39k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 975k–1.6M; $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.9M before the cut; from 39k 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 Temtem out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Temtem's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 399k–1.3M

best case 15.7M (Palworld)

Games like Temtem

The middle of these games

≈ 399k–1.3M copies

≈ $3.0M–$8.5M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Palworld at ≈ 12.0M–19.4M copies, ≈ $98.7M–$265.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 972 to 470k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (4 of 8) and Creature Collector (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $30.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 52 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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