How much revenue did Minimalist Tower Defense make?

$63k–$168k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Minimalist Tower Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did Minimalist Tower Defense sell?

46k to 74k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 46k–74k; $63k–$168k after Steam's cut $114k–$259k before the cut; from 2k 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 Minimalist Tower Defense out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Minimalist Tower Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 63k–141k

best case 154k (Creeper World 4)

Games like Minimalist Tower Defense

The middle of these games

≈ 63k–141k copies

≈ $337k–$670k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Creeper World 4 at ≈ 117k–190k copies, ≈ $804k–$2.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 542 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 103 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Wargame, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 2 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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