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How many copies did Day D: Tower Rush sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 12k–20k
$51k–$136k after Steam's cut $92k–$210k before Steam's cut
from 296 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 Day D: Tower Rush and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Day D: Tower Rush's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 745k–1.4M
best case 13.1M (7 Days to Die)
Games like Day D: Tower Rush

A typical game among these

≈ 745k–1.4M copies

≈ $3.5M–$8.8M 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.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.2M copies, ≈ $123.1M–$331.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Base-Building (5 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Zombies + Multiplayer + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
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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