How much revenue did Need More Troops make?

$817–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Need More Troops sell?

Q: How many copies did Need More Troops sell?

595 to 967 copies, based on its 24 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 595–967; $817–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 24 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 Need More Troops and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Need More Troops's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 130–2k

best case 57k (挂机神话)

Games like Need More Troops

A typical game among these

≈ 130–2k copies

≈ $777–$9k after Steam's cut

from ~18 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: 挂机神话 at ≈ 43k–70k copies, ≈ $24k–$63k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 1k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (6 of 8) and Clicker (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Word Game, priced around $2.
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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