How much revenue did Infested Planet make?

$704k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Infested Planet sell?

Q: How many copies did Infested Planet sell?

171k to 277k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 171k–277k; $704k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Infested Planet and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Infested Planet's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 94k–147k

best case 355k (Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal)

Games like Infested Planet

A typical game among these

≈ 94k–147k copies

≈ $667k–$672k 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.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

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

Best case: Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal at ≈ 271k–440k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.0M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 472 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (8 of 8) and RTS (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + RTS, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2026, 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 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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Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal 2014	Est. copies ≈ 271k–440k 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
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