How much revenue did Dwarf Tower make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dwarf Tower sell?

Q: How many copies did Dwarf Tower sell?

16k to 25k copies, based on its 279 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–25k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before Steam's cut; from 279 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 Dwarf Tower and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dwarf Tower's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 226k–991k

best case 1.0M (Dwarf Fortress)

Games like Dwarf Tower

A typical game among these

≈ 226k–991k copies

≈ $2.2M–$10.8M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Turn-Based (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Dwarf Fortress at ≈ 783k–1.3M copies, ≈ $6.5M–$17.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based (4 of 8) and Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Colony Sim, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, and none of them 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 70 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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Dwarf Fortress 2022	Est. copies ≈ 783k–1.3M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.5M–$17.4M after Steam's cut $11.7M–$26.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	32k reviews Very Positive	DwarfColony Sim
Craft The World 2014	Est. copies ≈ 961k–1.6M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.0M–$13.5M after Steam's cut $9.1M–$20.8M before Steam's cut	$18.99	17k reviews Very Positive	DwarfColony Sim
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