How much revenue did Tricky Towers make?

$2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tricky Towers sell?

Q: How many copies did Tricky Towers sell?

687k to 1.1M copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 687k–1.1M; $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.7M before Steam's cut; from 17k reviews (Very 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 Tricky Towers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tricky Towers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 691k–1.2M

best case 2.9M (Ultimate Chicken Horse)

Games like Tricky Towers

A typical game among these

≈ 691k–1.2M copies

≈ $2.2M–$6.9M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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 Co-op (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: Ultimate Chicken Horse at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 825 reviews in their first month; the range was 53 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (4 of 8) and Party (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party + Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, 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 61 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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Super Bunny Man 2023	Est. copies ≈ 309k–502k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	12k reviews Very Positive	PlatformerSandbox
Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut $16.8M–$38.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	54k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerParty
Draw & Guess 2021	Est. copies ≈ 874k–1.4M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.0M before Steam's cut	$4.99	35k reviews Very Positive	PartyMultiplayer
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