How much revenue did Alien Shooter TD make?

$87k–$234k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alien Shooter TD sell?

Q: How many copies did Alien Shooter TD sell?

32k to 51k copies, based on its 919 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 32k–51k; $87k–$234k after Steam's cut $158k–$359k before Steam's cut; from 919 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 Alien Shooter TD and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alien Shooter TD's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.6M–12.1M

best case 12.1M (People Playground)

Games like Alien Shooter TD

A typical game among these

≈ 9.6M–12.1M copies

≈ $64.4M–$87.8M after Steam's cut

from ~222k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: People Playground at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 84 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 42k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Gore (6 of 8) and Violent (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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