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How many copies did CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 9k–14k
$24k–$63k after Steam's cut $43k–$98k before the cut
from 346 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 CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 185k–389k
best case 391k (Starship Troopers: Terran Command)
Games like CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense

The middle of these games

≈ 185k–389k copies

≈ $899k–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

Best case: Starship Troopers: Terran Command at ≈ 298k–484k copies, ≈ $2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Sci-fi (8 of 8) and RTS (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with RTS + Military, priced around $30.
The era
The games you compared span 2008 to 2022, and none of them 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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