How much revenue did Fortress Building Puzzle make?

$646–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fortress Building Puzzle sell?

Q: How many copies did Fortress Building Puzzle sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $646–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 19 reviews (Mixed)

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 Fortress Building Puzzle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fortress Building Puzzle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–262k

best case 1.8M (DiRT Rally 2.0)

Games like Fortress Building Puzzle

A typical game among these

≈ 11k–262k copies

≈ $39k–$5.9M 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: DiRT Rally 2.0 at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 99 reviews in their first month; the range was 28 to 9k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Sports (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Automobile Sim, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 36 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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