How much revenue did Broken Universe - Tower Defense make?

$21k–$57k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Broken Universe - Tower Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did Broken Universe - Tower Defense sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 313 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $39k–$88k before the cut; from 313 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 Broken Universe - Tower Defense out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Broken Universe - Tower Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 738k–1.4M

best case 13.0M (7 Days to Die)

Games like Broken Universe - Tower Defense

The middle of these games

≈ 738k–1.4M copies

≈ $4.0M–$9.2M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $122.7M–$330.0M 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 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (6 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Post-apocalyptic + Voxel; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 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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7 Days to Die 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9.9M–16.1M 21x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $122.7M–$330.0M after Steam's cut $223.1M–$507.7M before the cut	$44.99	400k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies
They Are Billions 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 2.7x 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
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Mindustry 2019	Est. copies ≈ 803k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.1M before the cut	$9.99	28k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Base-BuildingResource Management
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