How much revenue did Towertale make?

$5k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Towertale sell?

Q: How many copies did Towertale sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 69 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before the cut; from 69 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 Towertale out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Towertale's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 715k–929k

best case 922k (NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139...)

Games like Towertale

The middle of these games

≈ 715k–929k copies

≈ $6.3M–$12.9M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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.

Best case: NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139... at ≈ 703k–1.1M copies, ≈ $11.6M–$31.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (5 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + JRPG, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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 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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