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How many copies did Bulwark sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 25–40
$48–$127 after Steam's cut $87–$196 before Steam's cut
from 1 review (1 user reviews)
Only 1 review 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 Bulwark and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bulwark's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 619–1k
best case 69k (Taur)
Games like Bulwark

A typical game among these

≈ 619–1k copies

≈ $2k–$4k after Steam's cut

from ~20 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: Taur at ≈ 52k–85k copies, ≈ $360k–$968k 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 20 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 472.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with RTS + City Builder, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Strategy; 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 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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