How much revenue did Artificer's Tower make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Artificer's Tower sell?

Q: How many copies did Artificer's Tower sell?

645 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 26 reviews (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 Artificer's Tower and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Artificer's Tower's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 579k–1.3M

best case 1.9M (They Are Billions)

Games like Artificer's Tower

A typical game among these

≈ 579k–1.3M copies

≈ $1.9M–$10.1M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: They Are Billions at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $12.2M–$32.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Colony Sim (6 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Colony Sim, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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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