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How big is Tep The Destroyer TD?

Estimated owners
≈ 1k–2k
from 49 reviews (Mostly 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 Tep The Destroyer TD out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tep The Destroyer TD's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 60k–320k
best case 1.2M (Sanctum 2)
Games like Tep The Destroyer TD

The middle of these games

≈ 60k–320k copies

≈ $277k–$1.5M 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: Sanctum 2 at ≈ 909k–1.5M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Sci-fi (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Tower Defense + FPS, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2008 to 2024, and 1 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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2011
Est. copies
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SteamSpy 1M–2M
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$583k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before the cut
$9.99
3k reviews
Very Positive
Sanctum 2
2013
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≈ 909k–1.5M
5.3x vs typical
SteamSpy 2M–5M
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$3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.5M before the cut
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