How much revenue did Elements and build make?

$13k–$36k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Elements and build sell?

Q: How many copies did Elements and build sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 217 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$55k before the cut; from 217 reviews (Mostly 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 Elements and build out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Elements and build's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–19k

best case 178k (Tower Dominion)

Games like Elements and build

The middle of these games

≈ 9k–19k copies

≈ $34k–$55k after Steam's cut

from ~414 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: Tower Dominion at ≈ 136k–221k copies, ≈ $654k–$1.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 225 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 125 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Base-Building, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Tactical + Choices Matter + Base-Building; a typical game here doesn't.
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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