How much revenue did The Sentinel make?

$87–$236 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Sentinel sell?

Q: How many copies did The Sentinel sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $87–$236 after Steam's cut $159–$363 before the cut; from 13 reviews (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 The Sentinel out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Sentinel's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–79k

best case 565k (Bad North: Jotunn Edition)

Games like The Sentinel

The middle of these games

≈ 13k–79k copies

≈ $37k–$530k after Steam's cut

from ~702 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: Bad North: Jotunn Edition at ≈ 431k–700k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 248 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 127 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Auto Battler (6 of 8) and Tower Defense (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + Vikings, priced around $15.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 38 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Bad North: Jotunn Edition 2018	Est. copies ≈ 431k–700k 20x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.3M before the cut	$14.99	14k reviews Very Positive	WargameVikings
Tower Escape 2023	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $23k–$61k after Steam's cut $41k–$93k before the cut	$7.99	414 reviews Very Positive	Rogue-lite Roguelike Deckbuilder
Epic Auto Towers 2024	Est. copies ≈ 20k–32k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $80k–$216k after Steam's cut $146k–$333k before the cut	$14.99	787 reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessAuto Battler
Loopstructor 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $18k–$49k after Steam's cut $33k–$76k before the cut	$6.99	383 reviews Very Positive	StrategyTower Defense
Resist the succubus—The end of the female Knight 2024	Est. copies ≈ 35k–57k 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $165k–$444k after Steam's cut $300k–$683k before the cut	$16.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Sexual ContentHentai
Samawa Idle 2023	Est. copies ≈ 15k–25k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $21k–$56k after Steam's cut $38k–$87k before the cut	$4.99	617 reviews Mixed	ClickerIdler
Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD 2024	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $16k–$44k after Steam's cut $30k–$68k before the cut	$9.99	240 reviews Mostly Positive	Action RoguelikeAuto Battler
Tower Dominion 2025	Est. copies ≈ 136k–221k 7.8x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $654k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before the cut	$17.49	5k reviews Very Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy