How much revenue did Spirits of the Hellements - TD make?

$28k–$75k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spirits of the Hellements - TD sell?

Q: How many copies did Spirits of the Hellements - TD sell?

8k to 14k copies, based on its 340 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–14k; $28k–$75k after Steam's cut $51k–$115k before the cut; from 340 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 Spirits of the Hellements - TD out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spirits of the Hellements - TD's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 62k–108k

best case 108k (Kingdom Eighties)

Games like Spirits of the Hellements - TD

The middle of these games

≈ 62k–108k copies

≈ $346k–$499k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Kingdom Eighties at ≈ 82k–133k copies, ≈ $271k–$728k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 325 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 262 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Side Scroller, priced around $12.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 3 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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