How much revenue did OTTTD make?

$44k–$119k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did OTTTD sell?

Q: How many copies did OTTTD sell?

20k to 33k copies, based on its 360 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–33k; $44k–$119k after Steam's cut $81k–$183k before Steam's cut; from 360 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 OTTTD and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including OTTTD's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 380k–1.2M

best case 1.6M (Kingdom Two Crowns)

Games like OTTTD

A typical game among these

≈ 380k–1.2M copies

≈ $3.8M–$7.1M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Kingdom Two Crowns at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $6.7M–$17.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 16k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (6 of 8) and Base-Building (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + City Builder, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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