How much revenue did Super Sanctum TD make?

$137k–$369k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Super Sanctum TD sell?

Q: How many copies did Super Sanctum TD sell?

100k to 162k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 100k–162k; $137k–$369k after Steam's cut $249k–$568k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Super Sanctum TD and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Super Sanctum TD's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 193k–827k

best case 1.9M (They Are Billions)

Games like Super Sanctum TD

A typical game among these

≈ 193k–827k copies

≈ $1.4M–$5.3M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: They Are Billions at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $12.2M–$32.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and City Builder (4 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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