How much revenue did Guardian of the jungle make?

$81–$219 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Guardian of the jungle sell?

Q: How many copies did Guardian of the jungle sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $81–$219 after Steam's cut $148–$337 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Guardian of the jungle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Guardian of the jungle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–52k

best case 56k (METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED)

Games like Guardian of the jungle

A typical game among these

≈ 40k–52k copies

≈ $181k–$261k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED at ≈ 43k–69k copies, ≈ $117k–$314k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 89 reviews in their first month; the range was 8 to 1k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Auto Battler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Simulation, priced around $10.
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 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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