How much revenue did 1001st Hyper Tower make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 1001st Hyper Tower sell?

Q: How many copies did 1001st Hyper Tower sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 49 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before the cut; from 49 reviews (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 1001st Hyper Tower out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 1001st Hyper Tower's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 192k–406k

best case 793k (Roboquest)

Games like 1001st Hyper Tower

The middle of these games

≈ 192k–406k copies

≈ $1.0M–$3.2M 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.

Best case: Roboquest at ≈ 604k–981k copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 926 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and FPS (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, 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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Roboquest 2023	Est. copies ≈ 604k–981k 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$11.2M after Steam's cut $7.5M–$17.2M before the cut	$24.99	24k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSAction Roguelike
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