How much revenue did fishTDX make?

$817–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did fishTDX sell?

Q: How many copies did fishTDX sell?

595 to 967 copies, based on its 24 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 595–967; $817–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 24 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 fishTDX and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including fishTDX's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–80k

best case 572k (Bad North: Jotunn Edition)

Games like fishTDX

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–80k copies

≈ $38k–$537k after Steam's cut

from ~706 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Bad North: Jotunn Edition at ≈ 436k–709k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 248 reviews in their first month; the range was 127 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Auto Battler (6 of 8) and Tower Defense (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + Vikings, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 38 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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