How much revenue did Tower Factory make?

$129k–$346k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tower Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did Tower Factory sell?

31k to 51k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–51k; $129k–$346k after Steam's cut $234k–$532k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Tower Factory and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tower Factory's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–376k

best case 7.7M (Factorio)

Games like Tower Factory

A typical game among these

≈ 15k–376k copies

≈ $70k–$2.4M 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Factorio at ≈ 5.9M–9.5M copies, ≈ $56.4M–$151.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 472 reviews in their first month; the range was 113 to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automation (7 of 8) and Base-Building (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automation + Base-Building, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 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 36 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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Factorio 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.9M–9.5M 151x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $56.4M–$151.5M after Steam's cut $102.5M–$233.1M before Steam's cut	$35.00	236k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AutomationBase-Building
Mindustry 2019	Est. copies ≈ 813k–1.3M 18x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	28k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Base-BuildingResource Management
Taur 2020	Est. copies ≈ 52k–85k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $360k–$968k after Steam's cut $654k–$1.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
The Perfect Tower II 2025	Est. copies ≈ 111k–180k 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Very Positive	StrategyIdler
Vectorio 2023	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $49k–$112k before Steam's cut	$9.99	397 reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessBase-Building
Ooglians 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut	$1.99	256 reviews Mixed	Early AccessTower Defense
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