How much revenue did Minimalist Tower Defense make?

$64k–$171k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Minimalist Tower Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did Minimalist Tower Defense sell?

46k to 75k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 46k–75k; $64k–$171k after Steam's cut $116k–$264k 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 Minimalist Tower Defense and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Minimalist Tower Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–142k

best case 154k (Creeper World 4)

Games like Minimalist Tower Defense

A typical game among these

≈ 64k–142k copies

≈ $338k–$672k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Creeper World 4 at ≈ 117k–191k copies, ≈ $807k–$2.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 542 reviews in their first month; the range was 103 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Wargame, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 2 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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