How much revenue did Tile Cities make?

$12k–$32k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tile Cities sell?

Q: How many copies did Tile Cities sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 576 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $12k–$32k after Steam's cut $21k–$49k before Steam's cut; from 576 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 Tile Cities and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tile Cities's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 765–1k

best case 5k (Land Above Sea Below)

Games like Tile Cities

A typical game among these

≈ 765–1k copies

≈ $2k–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~27 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Land Above Sea Below at ≈ 4k–6k copies, ≈ $8k–$22k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 33 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 77.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Puzzle, priced around $9. The breakout hits carry Sandbox; a typical game here doesn't.
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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