How much revenue did Dwarf Tower make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dwarf Tower sell?

Q: How many copies did Dwarf Tower sell?

16k to 25k copies, based on its 279 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–25k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before the cut; from 279 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 Dwarf Tower out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dwarf Tower's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 225k–962k

best case 1.0M (Dwarf Fortress)

Games like Dwarf Tower

The middle of these games

≈ 225k–962k copies

≈ $2.2M–$10.5M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Turn-Based (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Dwarf Fortress at ≈ 780k–1.3M copies, ≈ $6.4M–$17.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based (4 of 8) and Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Colony Sim, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, and none of them 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 70 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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