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 the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Guardian of the jungle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Guardian of the jungle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–52k

best case 55k (METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED)

Games like Guardian of the jungle

The middle of these games

≈ 40k–52k copies

≈ $180k–$260k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED at ≈ 42k–69k copies, ≈ $116k–$312k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Auto Battler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Simulation, priced around $10.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche 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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