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How many copies did Ultratank sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 58–94
$16–$42 after Steam's cut $29–$65 before the cut
from 2 reviews (2 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 2 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.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29k–93k
best case 155k (Orbt XL)
Games like Ultratank

The middle of these games

≈ 29k–93k copies

≈ $37k–$131k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Orbt XL at ≈ 118k–192k copies, ≈ $32k–$86k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 268 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Arcade (5 of 8) and Runner (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Arcade + Score Attack, priced around $1.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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