How much revenue did Bloons TD 6 make?

$46.1M–$124.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bloons TD 6 sell?

Q: How many copies did Bloons TD 6 sell?

12.0M to 19.5M copies, based on its 394k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12.0M–19.5M; $46.1M–$124.0M after Steam's cut $83.8M–$190.7M before the cut; from 394k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Bloons TD 6 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bloons TD 6's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–1.9M

best case 13.0M (7 Days to Die)

Games like Bloons TD 6

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–1.9M copies

≈ $7.5M–$16.7M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Base-Building (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: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $122.7M–$330.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (4 of 8) and Resource Management (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $35.
The era: The games you compared span 2000 to 2024, 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 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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7 Days to Die 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9.9M–16.1M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $122.7M–$330.0M after Steam's cut $223.1M–$507.7M before the cut	$44.99	400k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies
Counter-Strike 2000	Est. copies ≈ 16.5M–26.8M 8.3x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $45.4M–$122.0M after Steam's cut $82.5M–$187.7M before the cut	$9.99	261k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionFPS
Kingdoms and Castles 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.9M–$16.0M after Steam's cut $10.8M–$24.6M before the cut	$19.99	31k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Colony Sim
They Are Billions 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.2M–$32.8M after Steam's cut $22.2M–$50.5M before the cut	$29.99	51k reviews Very Positive	Base-BuildingColony Sim
Factorio 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.8M–9.4M 7.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $55.8M–$150.2M after Steam's cut $101.5M–$231.0M before the cut	$35.00	234k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AutomationBase-Building
Bloons TD Battles 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	29k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayTower Defense
Minion Masters 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	65k reviews Very Positive	PvETrading Card Game
Mindustry 2019	Est. copies ≈ 803k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.1M before the cut	$9.99	28k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Base-BuildingResource Management