How much revenue did Spirits of the Hellements - TD make?

$28k–$75k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spirits of the Hellements - TD sell?

Q: How many copies did Spirits of the Hellements - TD sell?

8k to 14k copies, based on its 340 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–14k; $28k–$75k after Steam's cut $51k–$115k before Steam's cut; from 340 reviews (Very 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 Spirits of the Hellements - TD and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spirits of the Hellements - TD's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–109k

best case 109k (Kingdom Eighties)

Games like Spirits of the Hellements - TD

A typical game among these

≈ 64k–109k copies

≈ $346k–$504k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Kingdom Eighties at ≈ 83k–135k copies, ≈ $273k–$735k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 323 reviews in their first month; the range was 262 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Side Scroller, priced around $12.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 3 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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