How much revenue did The Tower on the Borderland make?

$8k–$21k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Tower on the Borderland sell?

Q: How many copies did The Tower on the Borderland sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 72 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$32k before Steam's cut; from 72 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 The Tower on the Borderland and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Tower on the Borderland's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–1.9M

best case 2.2M (Remnant: From the Ashes)

Games like The Tower on the Borderland

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–1.9M copies

≈ $5k–$30.0M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Remnant: From the Ashes at ≈ 1.7M–2.7M copies, ≈ $18.2M–$49.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 84 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 10k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (5 of 8) and Survival Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Co-op, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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