Tricube Tales hits Gold Best Seller: Here's a look at the sales figures

Six months ago I reported that Tricube Tales had hit Electrum Best Seller, and two of the 12 micro-settings had hit Silver. But I've continued churning out more micro-settings, as well as solo rules, and this week Tricube Tales hit Gold Best Seller!

While this is a small achievement compared to many publishers, it's still a personal milestone. I already have Gold and Platinum products on the Savage Worlds Adventurer's Guild, but promoting my own system has proven far more challenging.

However, each new micro-setting draws interest in the rest of the product line, and the recent Deal of the Day proved shockingly successful, so I thought the sales figures might be of interest to other publishers.

Total Sales per Month

Here are the total sales for the entire product line since the first release:

• Nov 2019: 54
• Dec 2019: 11
• Jan 2020: 3
• Feb 2020: 12
• Mar 2020: 20
• Apr 2020: 6
• May 2020: 6
• Jun 2020: 2
• Jul 2020: 3
• Aug 2020: 14
• Sep 2020: 7
• Oct 2020: 28
• Nov 2020: 13
• Dec 2020: 19
• Jan 2021: 12
• Feb 2021: 6
• Mar 2021: 50 (includes a DriveThruCards Deal of the Day)
• Apr 2021: 58
• May 2021: 256
• Jun 2021: 110
• Jul 2021: 80
• Aug 2021: 238 (includes a DriveThruCards Deal of the Day)
• Sep 2021: 79
• Oct 2021: 256 (includes a DriveThruCards Deal of the Day)
• Nov 2021: 1210 (670 during the DriveThruRPG Deal of the Day!)
• Dec 2021: 207 so far (as of 4th December)

Breakdown by Product

And here is a breakdown of sales figures for the main products:

• Tricube Tales (core rules): 523 sales since 2019-11-08
• Solo Rules & Deck: 482 sales since 2021-05-14

These are the "payment optional" products on DTRPG (in order of publication) -- people can download them for free, but I'm only tracking actual sales where people paid for them:

• Goblin Gangsters: 191 sales since 2020-08-27
• Samhain Slaughter: 219 sales since 2020-10-08
• Chrome Shells & Neon Streets: 261 sales since 2020-11-21
• Metahuman Uprising: 203 sales since 2020-12-28
• Rotten Odds: 159 sales since 2021-01-31
• Tales of the Goblin Horde: 172 sales since 2021-04-01
• Wardens of the Weird West: 182 sales since 2021-06-12
• Firefighters: 144 sales since 2021-07-06
• Horrible Henchmen: 142 sales since 2021-08-13
• Pirates of the Bone Blade: 145 sales since 2021-09-15
• Eldritch Detectives: 157 sales since 2021-10-30
• Wiseguys: Gangster Tales: 91 sales since 2021-11-20
• Interstellar Mech War: 38 sales since 2021-11-30

These are the DTRPG freebies (in order of publication) -- I like to have a few free products to build up my mailing list:

• Interstellar Bounty Hunters: 1728 downloads since 2020-09-29
• Welcome to Drakonheim: 809 downloads since 2021-03-10
• Interstellar Troopers: 1023 downloads since 2021-04-26
• Interstellar Laser Knights: 1000 downloads since 2021-05-04

I also have a few freebies on Itch, which I entered into Jams. Here they are, once again in order of publication:

• The Fools Who Follow: 511 downloads since 2020-07-29
• Deep Trouble in Oldport Bay: 325 downloads since 2021-02-20
• Halfling Hustlers: 116 downloads since 2021-07-03
• Guardians of the Shadow Frontier: 251 downloads since 2021-07-31

The high download numbers for Interstellar Bounty Hunters are due to a Discord community that built up around it. But in general, I have far more downloads on DriveThruRPG than Itch.