How much revenue did TowerFall Ascension make?

$834k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TowerFall Ascension sell?

Q: How many copies did TowerFall Ascension sell?

202k to 329k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 202k–329k; $834k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut; from 4k 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 TowerFall Ascension out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TowerFall Ascension's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 295k–452k

best case 18.6M (Brawlhalla)

Games like TowerFall Ascension

The middle of these games

≈ 295k–452k copies

≈ $2.2M–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Brawlhalla at ≈ 14.2M–23.0M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Fighter (8 of 8) and Fighting (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + 2D Fighter, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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ROUNDS 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 5.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.5M before the cut	$5.99	44k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerFighting