How much revenue did Tactical Troops: Anthracite Shift make?

$6k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tactical Troops: Anthracite Shift sell?

Q: How many copies did Tactical Troops: Anthracite Shift sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 55 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before Steam's cut; from 55 reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Tactical Troops: Anthracite Shift and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tactical Troops: Anthracite Shift's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–94k

best case 140k (Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game)

Games like Tactical Troops: Anthracite Shift

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–94k copies

≈ $47k–$367k after Steam's cut

from ~836 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Turn-Based (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game at ≈ 107k–173k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 94 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 2k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based (4 of 8) and Sci-fi (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based + Tactical RPG, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2025, and 2 of the 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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