How much revenue did MarZ: Tactical Base Defense make?

$155k–$416k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MarZ: Tactical Base Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did MarZ: Tactical Base Defense sell?

26k to 42k copies, based on its 889 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26k–42k; $155k–$416k after Steam's cut $282k–$640k before the cut; from 889 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 MarZ: Tactical Base Defense out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MarZ: Tactical Base Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 161k–264k

best case 1.9M (They Are Billions)

Games like MarZ: Tactical Base Defense

The middle of these games

≈ 161k–264k copies

≈ $1.3M–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: They Are Billions at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $12.2M–$32.8M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RTS (7 of 8) and Tower Defense (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Base-Building; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2025, and 2 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 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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