How much revenue did Sanctum 2 make?

$3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sanctum 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Sanctum 2 sell?

910k to 1.5M copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 910k–1.5M; $3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.5M before Steam's cut; from 14k 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 Sanctum 2 and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Sanctum 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 340k–1.0M

best case 1.6M (Dungeon Defenders)

Games like Sanctum 2

A typical game among these

≈ 340k–1.0M copies

≈ $3.4M–$7.4M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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 3 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Dungeon Defenders at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $5.0M–$13.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (3 of 3) and Action RPG (1 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Survival, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2022, and none of them 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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Orcs Must Die! 3 2021	Est. copies ≈ 371k–603k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.2M after Steam's cut $5.6M–$12.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	15k reviews Very Positive	Tower Defense Co-op
Rogue Tower 2022	Est. copies ≈ 147k–239k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $607k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
Dungeon Defenders 2011	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.0M–$13.3M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	19k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerOnline Co-Op