How much revenue did Water City make?

$55–$146 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Water City sell?

Q: How many copies did Water City sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $55–$146 after Steam's cut $100–$224 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review 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 Water City and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Water City's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 28k–403k

best case 1.2M (Sanctum 2)

Games like Water City

A typical game among these

≈ 28k–403k copies

≈ $132k–$3.4M 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.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sanctum 2 at ≈ 910k–1.5M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 321 reviews in their first month; the range was 221 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Survival (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + FPS, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Sanctum 2 2013	Est. copies ≈ 910k–1.5M 10x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Tower Defense FPS
Age of Darkness: Final Stand 2025	Est. copies ≈ 264k–430k 7.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.5M after Steam's cut $3.7M–$8.4M before Steam's cut	$27.99	11k reviews Mostly Positive	Tower DefenseAction RTS
Decision: Red Daze 2022	Est. copies ≈ 22k–36k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $123k–$332k after Steam's cut $224k–$510k before Steam's cut	$19.99	905 reviews Mostly Positive	SurvivalAction
Minimalist Tower Defense 2024	Est. copies ≈ 46k–75k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $64k–$171k after Steam's cut $116k–$264k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
Bad North: Jotunn Edition 2018	Est. copies ≈ 436k–709k 10x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	14k reviews Very Positive	WargameVikings
Start Over 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $39k–$105k after Steam's cut $71k–$162k before Steam's cut	$14.99	382 reviews Mixed	SurvivalBase-Building
SENTRY 2024	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $124k–$334k after Steam's cut $226k–$514k before Steam's cut	$19.99	911 reviews Very Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
IDUN - Frontline Survival 2025	Est. copies ≈ 18k–29k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $74k–$199k after Steam's cut $135k–$306k before Steam's cut	$14.99	724 reviews Mostly Positive	3DBuilding