How much revenue did Townscaper make?

$884k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Townscaper sell?

Q: How many copies did Townscaper sell?

537k to 872k copies, based on its 22k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 537k–872k; $884k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut; from 22k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Townscaper and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Townscaper's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–46k

best case 806k (Tiny Glade)

Games like Townscaper

A typical game among these

≈ 44k–46k copies

≈ $274k–$338k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Tiny Glade at ≈ 614k–998k copies, ≈ $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 813 reviews in their first month; the range was 302 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (6 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Collectathon, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Casual; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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