How much revenue did IRON GUARD make?

$16k–$43k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did IRON GUARD sell?

Q: How many copies did IRON GUARD sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 157 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$66k before the cut; from 157 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 IRON GUARD out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including IRON GUARD's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 358–10k

best case 1.9M (They Are Billions)

Games like IRON GUARD

The middle of these games

≈ 358–10k copies

≈ $2k–$148k after Steam's cut

from ~24 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: They Are Billions at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $12.2M–$32.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 16.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RTS (6 of 8) and VR (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Colony Sim, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, 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 43 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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They Are Billions 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 2141x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.2M–$32.8M after Steam's cut $22.2M–$50.5M before the cut	$29.99	51k reviews Very Positive	Base-BuildingColony Sim
Tower Defender VR: Last Adventure 2022	Est. copies ≈ 322–524 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut	$19.99	13 reviews Positive	StrategyRPG
Magic Stone Guardians 2023	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $103–$273 after Steam's cut $187–$420 before the cut	$14.99	1 reviews 1 user reviews	VRTower Defense
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