How much revenue did Infested Planet make?

$702k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Infested Planet sell?

Q: How many copies did Infested Planet sell?

170k to 277k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 170k–277k; $702k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before the cut; from 3k 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 Infested Planet out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Infested Planet's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 94k–146k

best case 354k (Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal)

Games like Infested Planet

The middle of these games

≈ 94k–146k copies

≈ $665k–$670k 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

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

Best case: Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal at ≈ 270k–439k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.0M 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 713 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 470 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (8 of 8) and RTS (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + RTS, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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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