How much revenue did Elements and build make?

$13k–$36k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Elements and build sell?

Q: How many copies did Elements and build sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 219 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$56k before Steam's cut; from 219 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 Elements and build and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Elements and build's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–19k

best case 182k (Tower Dominion)

Games like Elements and build

A typical game among these

≈ 9k–19k copies

≈ $35k–$55k after Steam's cut

from ~415 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: Tower Dominion at ≈ 139k–226k copies, ≈ $669k–$1.8M 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 225 reviews in their first month; the range was 124 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Base-Building, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Tactical + Choices Matter + Base-Building; a typical game here doesn't.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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