How much revenue did Peaceful Gunner make?

$851–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Peaceful Gunner sell?

Q: How many copies did Peaceful Gunner sell?

620 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 620–1k; $851–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 25 reviews (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 Peaceful Gunner and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Peaceful Gunner's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–661k

best case 1.6M (Orcs Must Die! 2)

Games like Peaceful Gunner

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–661k copies

≈ $66k–$4.9M 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.

4 of the 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: Orcs Must Die! 2 at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 177 reviews in their first month; the range was 51 to 883.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (6 of 7) and Third-Person Shooter (4 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Co-op, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 1 of the 7 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Orcs Must Die! 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	20k reviews Very Positive	Tower Defense Co-op
Orcs Must Die! 2011	Est. copies ≈ 539k–876k 6.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	9k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseAction
Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 468k–760k 15x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.9M–$10.4M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	19k reviews Mostly Positive	MultiplayerThird-Person Shooter
Beach Invasion 1945 - Pacific 2023	Est. copies ≈ 7k–11k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $19k–$50k after Steam's cut $34k–$78k before Steam's cut	$9.99	275 reviews Mostly Positive	ShooterWorld War II
McDROID 2014	Est. copies ≈ 12k–20k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $33k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$138k before Steam's cut	$9.99	217 reviews Mostly Positive	Third-Person ShooterTower Defense
Iron Brigade 2012	Est. copies ≈ 79k–128k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $325k–$874k after Steam's cut $591k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	1k reviews Very Positive	ActionStrategy
Block Fortress 2 2025	Est. copies ≈ 7k–11k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $38k–$103k after Steam's cut $69k–$158k before Steam's cut	$19.99	280 reviews Very Positive	ActionBase-Building