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How many copies did Towers of Altrac - Epic Defense Battles sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–11k
$2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut
from 134 reviews (Mixed)

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 Towers of Altrac - Epic Defense Battles and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Towers of Altrac - Epic Defense Battles's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–94k
best case 109k (Kingdom Eighties)
Games like Towers of Altrac - Epic Defense Battles

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–94k copies

≈ $189k–$402k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Kingdom Eighties at ≈ 83k–135k copies, ≈ $273k–$735k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 323 reviews in their first month; the range was 142 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Fantasy (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Exploration + Side Scroller, priced around $12.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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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