How much revenue did Tower! Simulator 3 make?

$467k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tower! Simulator 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Tower! Simulator 3 sell?

28k to 46k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–46k; $467k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $850k–$1.9M before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Mixed)

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 Tower! Simulator 3 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tower! Simulator 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.8M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like Tower! Simulator 3

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–1.8M copies

≈ $11.1M–$17.8M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Flight (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the range was 11k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (4 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat. The breakout hits carry Vehicular Combat + Combat + World War II; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2020, 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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Stormworks: Build and Rescue 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's cut $18.7M–$42.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	60k reviews Very Positive	SandboxBase-Building
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