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How many copies did Last Stronghold sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 198–322
$217–$584 after Steam's cut $395–$899 before Steam's cut
from 8 reviews (8 user reviews)
Only 8 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 Last Stronghold and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Last Stronghold's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 556k–1.3M
best case 1.9M (They Are Billions)
Games like Last Stronghold

A typical game among these

≈ 556k–1.3M copies

≈ $2.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut

from ~21k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: They Are Billions at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $12.2M–$32.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 16k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Tower Defense (6 of 8) and City Builder (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Base-Building + Colony Sim, priced around $30.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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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