How much revenue did Build Em' Faster make?

$41–$110 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Build Em' Faster sell?

Q: How many copies did Build Em' Faster sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $41–$110 after Steam's cut $74–$169 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Build Em' Faster and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Build Em' Faster's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–32k

best case 190k (Ninja Kiwi Archive)

Games like Build Em' Faster

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–32k copies

≈ $2k–$84k after Steam's cut

from ~426 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.

Best case: Ninja Kiwi Archive at ≈ 145k–235k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 80 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 536.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Top-Down Shooter (5 of 8) and Tower Defense (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Arcade + Tower Defense.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 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 52 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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