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How many copies did TOP DOG sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–11k
$18k–$49k after Steam's cut $33k–$75k before the cut
from 267 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left TOP DOG out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TOP DOG's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–17k
best case 517k (EVERSPACE™)
Games like TOP DOG

The middle of these games

≈ 7k–17k copies

≈ $37k–$75k after Steam's cut

from ~313 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: EVERSPACE™ at ≈ 394k–641k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M 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 278 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 37 to 446.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Space + Action Roguelike, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Space + Space Sim + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, 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 43 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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