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How many copies did Cauldron sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 43k–69k
$176k–$472k after Steam's cut $319k–$726k 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 Cauldron out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cauldron's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–39k
best case 144k (The Perfect Tower II)
Games like Cauldron

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–39k copies

≈ $26k–$68k after Steam's cut

from ~855 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: The Perfect Tower II at ≈ 110k–178k copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 267 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 67 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Idler (7 of 8) and Management (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Idler + Tower Defense.
The era
4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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