How much revenue did Refactor make?

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

How many copies did Refactor sell?

Q: How many copies did Refactor sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 469 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$66k before the cut; from 469 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 Refactor out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Refactor's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 108k–182k

best case 674k (Kingdom: New Lands)

Games like Refactor

The middle of these games

≈ 108k–182k copies

≈ $574k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Kingdom: New Lands at ≈ 514k–834k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 262 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Rogue-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Survival, priced around $15.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 52 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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Kingdom: New Lands 2016	Est. copies ≈ 514k–834k 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.8M–$8.8M before the cut	$14.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Tower Defense Survival
Rogue Tower 2022	Est. copies ≈ 147k–239k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $605k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before the cut	$14.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
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Emberward 2024	Est. copies ≈ 95k–154k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $520k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $946k–$2.2M before the cut	$19.99	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Early AccessTower Defense
Tower Dominion 2025	Est. copies ≈ 136k–221k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $654k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before the cut	$17.49	5k reviews Very Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
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