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How many copies did TD Designer sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 298–484
from 12 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 TD Designer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TD Designer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 982k–5.1M
best case 15.7M (Bloons TD 6)
Games like TD Designer

The middle of these games

≈ 982k–5.1M copies

≈ $4.9M–$24.3M after Steam's cut

from ~40k 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: Bloons TD 6 at ≈ 12.0M–19.5M copies, ≈ $46.1M–$124.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Tower Defense (6 of 8) and Base-Building (2 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Co-op, priced around $14.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 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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