How much revenue did Orcs Must Die! 3 make?

$3.0M–$8.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Orcs Must Die! 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Orcs Must Die! 3 sell?

369k to 600k copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 369k–600k; $3.0M–$8.2M after Steam's cut $5.5M–$12.6M before the cut; from 15k 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 Orcs Must Die! 3 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Orcs Must Die! 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 77k–636k

best case 1.6M (Orcs Must Die! 2)

Games like Orcs Must Die! 3

The middle of these games

≈ 77k–636k copies

≈ $157k–$3.8M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of your 8 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 493 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 51 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (5 of 8) and Tower Defense (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Co-op, priced around $15.
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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