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How many copies did Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 20k–32k
$109k–$293k after Steam's cut $198k–$451k before Steam's cut
from 799 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 Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–6.1M
best case 8.4M (World of Tanks Blitz)
Games like Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense

A typical game among these

≈ 2.4M–6.1M copies

≈ $34.3M–$80.1M after Steam's cut

from ~67k 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.

Best case: World of Tanks Blitz at ≈ 6.4M–10.4M copies.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Tactical (5 of 8) and Grand Strategy (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Tanks + Shooter.
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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