How much revenue did Stratside make?

$205–$549 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stratside sell?

Q: How many copies did Stratside sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $205–$549 after Steam's cut $372–$845 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 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 Stratside and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stratside's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–58k

best case 138k (Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense)

Games like Stratside

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–58k copies

≈ $20k–$146k after Steam's cut

from ~555 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Tower Defense (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: Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense at ≈ 105k–171k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 62 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 331.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (4 of 8) and Building (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Level Editor + Tower Defense.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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WORLD OF ART JIGSAW PUZZLES 2020	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $12k–$32k after Steam's cut $22k–$49k before Steam's cut	$10.99	158 reviews Very Positive	PuzzleRelaxing
GLAD VALAKAS TOWER DEFENCE 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $855–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$0.99	109 reviews Very Positive	CasualAction
Progressbar95 2020	Est. copies ≈ 91k–148k 6.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $125k–$337k after Steam's cut $228k–$519k before Steam's cut	$4.99	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualArcade
Infinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense 2021	Est. copies ≈ 105k–171k 7.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Very Positive	Level EditorTower Defense
Mainframe Defenders 2020	Est. copies ≈ 20k–32k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $33k–$87k after Steam's cut $59k–$135k before Steam's cut	$5.99	796 reviews Very Positive	ExplorationTactical RPG
Sweet Dreams Alex 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$41k before Steam's cut	$14.99	97 reviews Very Positive	RelaxingPixel Graphics
Tower! Simulator 3 2022	Est. copies ≈ 28k–46k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $467k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $850k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$59.99	1k reviews Mixed	FlightSimulation
Broken Universe - Tower Defense 2023	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $39k–$88k before Steam's cut	$9.99	313 reviews Very Positive	StrategyTower Defense