How much revenue did ⁤Square Wars make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ⁤Square Wars sell?

Q: How many copies did ⁤Square Wars sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 47 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 47 reviews (Mostly 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 ⁤Square Wars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ⁤Square Wars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–5k

best case 172k (Crying Suns)

Games like ⁤Square Wars

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–5k copies

≈ $7k–$24k after Steam's cut

from ~103 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Crying Suns at ≈ 131k–213k copies, ≈ $902k–$2.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 68 reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 2k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Real Time Tactics (5 of 8) and Rogue-lite (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Rogue-lite + Base-Building + City Builder; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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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Crying Suns 2019	Est. copies ≈ 131k–213k 44x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $902k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	5k reviews Very Positive	StrategySpace
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