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How many copies did Tile Cities sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 14k–23k
$12k–$32k after Steam's cut $21k–$49k before the cut
from 575 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 Tile Cities out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tile Cities's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 749–1k
best case 5k (Land Above Sea Below)
Games like Tile Cities

The middle of these games

≈ 749–1k copies

≈ $2k–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~26 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Land Above Sea Below at ≈ 4k–6k copies, ≈ $8k–$22k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 33 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 77.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on City Builder (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with City Builder + Puzzle, priced around $9. The breakout hits carry Sandbox; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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