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How many copies did Towaga: Among Shadows sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 6k–9k
from 232 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 Towaga: Among Shadows out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Towaga: Among Shadows's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 138k–184k
best case 7.3M (鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal)
Games like Towaga: Among Shadows

The middle of these games

≈ 138k–184k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.8M 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action-Adventure (3 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: 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $30.6M–$82.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 440 to 208k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action-Adventure (3 of 8) and Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Metroidvania + Souls-like + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
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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