How many copies did Expand & Exterminate: Terrytorial Disputes - Endless Base Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did Expand & Exterminate: Terrytorial Disputes - Endless Base Defense sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 58 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Q: How much revenue did Expand & Exterminate: Terrytorial Disputes - Endless Base Defense make?

$787–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $787–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 58 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 Expand & Exterminate: Terrytorial Disputes - Endless Base Defense and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Expand & Exterminate: Terrytorial Disputes - Endless Base Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–63k

best case 732k (Dome Keeper)

Games like Expand & Exterminate: Terrytorial Disputes - Endless Base Defense

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–63k copies

≈ $18k–$424k after Steam's cut

from ~400 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dome Keeper at ≈ 558k–906k copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 160 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (6 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Post-apocalyptic + Rogue-like, priced around $18.
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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 70 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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Cliff Empire 2019	Est. copies ≈ 126k–205k 11x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $624k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut	$17.99	4k reviews Very Positive	City BuilderStrategy
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