How much revenue did Fortress Building Puzzle make?

$646–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fortress Building Puzzle sell?

Q: How many copies did Fortress Building Puzzle sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $646–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 19 reviews (Mixed)

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 Fortress Building Puzzle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fortress Building Puzzle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–258k

best case 1.8M (DiRT Rally 2.0)

Games like Fortress Building Puzzle

The middle of these games

≈ 11k–258k copies

≈ $38k–$5.8M 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: DiRT Rally 2.0 at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 99 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 28 to 9k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Sports (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Automobile Sim, priced around $20.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 36 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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