How much revenue did Artisan TD make?

$291k–$782k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Artisan TD sell?

Q: How many copies did Artisan TD sell?

62k to 101k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 62k–101k; $291k–$782k after Steam's cut $529k–$1.2M 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 Artisan TD out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Artisan TD's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–34k

best case 129k (Dungeon Warfare)

Games like Artisan TD

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–34k copies

≈ $22k–$242k after Steam's cut

from ~192 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dungeon Warfare at ≈ 98k–160k copies, ≈ $270k–$726k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 60 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 839.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Villain Protagonist, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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Dungeon Warfare 2015	Est. copies ≈ 98k–160k 10x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $270k–$726k after Steam's cut $491k–$1.1M before the cut	$9.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
Sweet Dreams Alex 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$41k before the cut	$14.99	97 reviews Very Positive	RelaxingPixel Graphics
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