How much revenue did For The Fatherland make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did For The Fatherland sell?

Q: How many copies did For The Fatherland sell?

868 to 1k copies, based on its 35 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 868–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 35 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 For The Fatherland out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including For The Fatherland's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 171k–436k

best case 496k (Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense)

Games like For The Fatherland

The middle of these games

≈ 171k–436k copies

≈ $1.1M–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense at ≈ 378k–614k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Auto Battler (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Auto Battler, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2026, 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 70 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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