How much revenue did The Bard's Tale Trilogy make?

$195k–$524k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Bard's Tale Trilogy sell?

Q: How many copies did The Bard's Tale Trilogy sell?

47k to 77k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 47k–77k; $195k–$524k after Steam's cut $354k–$806k before the cut; from 2k 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 The Bard's Tale Trilogy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Bard's Tale Trilogy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–25k

best case 299k (Legend of Grimrock 2)

Games like The Bard's Tale Trilogy

The middle of these games

≈ 7k–25k copies

≈ $36k–$96k after Steam's cut

from ~284 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: Legend of Grimrock 2 at ≈ 228k–371k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and Grid-Based Movement (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Grid-Based Movement, priced around $24.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2019, 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 36 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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