How much revenue did Peaceful Gunner make?

$851–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Peaceful Gunner sell?

Q: How many copies did Peaceful Gunner sell?

620 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 620–1k; $851–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 25 reviews (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 Peaceful Gunner out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Peaceful Gunner's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–659k

best case 1.6M (Orcs Must Die! 2)

Games like Peaceful Gunner

The middle of these games

≈ 12k–659k copies

≈ $65k–$4.9M 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.

4 of your 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: Orcs Must Die! 2 at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 177 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 51 to 884.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (6 of 7) and Third-Person Shooter (4 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Co-op, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 1 of your 7 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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Orcs Must Die! 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.1M before the cut	$14.99	20k reviews Very Positive	Tower Defense Co-op
Orcs Must Die! 2011	Est. copies ≈ 538k–875k 6.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before the cut	$9.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseAction
Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 466k–758k 15x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.9M before the cut	$29.99	19k reviews Mostly Positive	MultiplayerThird-Person Shooter
Beach Invasion 1945 - Pacific 2023	Est. copies ≈ 7k–11k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $18k–$50k after Steam's cut $34k–$76k before the cut	$9.99	271 reviews Mostly Positive	ShooterWorld War II
McDROID 2014	Est. copies ≈ 12k–20k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $33k–$89k after Steam's cut $60k–$137k before the cut	$9.99	215 reviews Mostly Positive	Third-Person ShooterTower Defense
Iron Brigade 2012	Est. copies ≈ 78k–128k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $324k–$870k after Steam's cut $588k–$1.3M before the cut	$14.99	1k reviews Very Positive	ActionStrategy
Block Fortress 2 2025	Est. copies ≈ 7k–11k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $37k–$101k after Steam's cut $68k–$155k before the cut	$19.99	275 reviews Very Positive	ActionBase-Building