How much revenue did Stratside make?

$205–$549 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stratside sell?

Q: How many copies did Stratside sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $205–$549 after Steam's cut $372–$845 before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 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 Stratside out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stratside's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–57k

best case 137k (Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense)

Games like Stratside

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–57k copies

≈ $19k–$144k after Steam's cut

from ~552 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Tower Defense (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: Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense at ≈ 105k–170k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 62 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 331.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (4 of 8) and Building (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Level Editor + Tower Defense.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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