How much revenue did PLANTOONS make?

$108–$292 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PLANTOONS sell?

Q: How many copies did PLANTOONS sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $108–$292 after Steam's cut $197–$449 before the cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Thin evidence: 8 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 122k–175k

best case 565k (Bad North: Jotunn Edition)

Games like PLANTOONS

The middle of these games

≈ 122k–175k copies

≈ $680k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Bad North: Jotunn Edition at ≈ 431k–700k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (5 of 8) and Rogue-lite (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Survival, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Survival + Minimalist + Wargame; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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Bad North: Jotunn Edition 2018	Est. copies ≈ 431k–700k 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.3M before the cut	$14.99	14k reviews Very Positive	WargameVikings
Kingdom: New Lands 2016	Est. copies ≈ 514k–834k 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.8M–$8.8M before the cut	$14.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Tower Defense Survival
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Rogue Tower 2022	Est. copies ≈ 147k–239k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $605k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before the cut	$14.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
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