How much revenue did Element TD 2 - Tower Defense make?

$330k–$888k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Element TD 2 - Tower Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did Element TD 2 - Tower Defense sell?

80k to 130k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 80k–130k; $330k–$888k after Steam's cut $601k–$1.4M before the cut; from 3k 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 Element TD 2 - Tower Defense out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Element TD 2 - Tower Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–83k

best case 179k (Ratropolis)

Games like Element TD 2 - Tower Defense

The middle of these games

≈ 23k–83k copies

≈ $140k–$463k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ratropolis at ≈ 137k–222k copies, ≈ $676k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 504 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 222 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and RTS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Deckbuilding + Card Battler, priced around $18.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 2 of your 8 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 38 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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