How much revenue did Plant the Towers make?

$123–$330 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Plant the Towers sell?

Q: How many copies did Plant the Towers sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $123–$330 after Steam's cut $223–$507 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Plant the Towers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Plant the Towers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 431k–1.4M

best case 16.0M (Palworld)

Games like Plant the Towers

A typical game among these

≈ 431k–1.4M copies

≈ $3.0M–$9.4M after Steam's cut

from ~16k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Palworld at ≈ 12.2M–19.8M copies, ≈ $100.5M–$270.1M 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 169k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 469k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (8 of 8) and Base-Building (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $37. The breakout hits carry Open World + Open World Survival Craft + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2026, 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 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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