How much revenue did Orcs Must Die! Unchained make?

Orcs Must Die! Unchained is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Orcs Must Die! Unchained sell?

Q: How many copies did Orcs Must Die! Unchained sell?

210k to 341k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 210k–341k; from 6k 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 Orcs Must Die! Unchained out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Orcs Must Die! Unchained's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–71k

best case 15.7M (Bloons TD 6)

Games like Orcs Must Die! Unchained

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–71k copies

≈ $17k–$187k after Steam's cut

from ~774 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: Bloons TD 6 at ≈ 12.0M–19.5M copies, ≈ $46.1M–$124.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on MOBA (6 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Co-op, priced around $14.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 79 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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Bloons TD 6 2018	Est. copies ≈ 12.0M–19.5M 509x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $46.1M–$124.0M after Steam's cut $83.8M–$190.7M before the cut	$13.99	394k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
Monday Night Combat 2011	Est. copies ≈ 76k–124k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $105k–$282k after Steam's cut $190k–$433k before the cut	$4.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Hero ShooterAction
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