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How many copies did Trench Run sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–6k
$4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$17k before the cut
from 88 reviews (Mixed)

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 Trench Run out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Trench Run's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 746–16k
best case 4.4M (Teardown)
Games like Trench Run

The middle of these games

≈ 746–16k copies

≈ $2k–$64k after Steam's cut

from ~102 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Teardown at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $27.7M–$74.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 32 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 38k.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Destruction (8 of 8) and Physics (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Destruction + Physics, priced around $30.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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