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How big is Grow Defense?

Estimated players who have it
≈ 15k–24k
from 607 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 Grow Defense and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grow Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–106k
best case 1.2M (Mountain)
Games like Grow Defense

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–106k copies

≈ $25k–$104k after Steam's cut

from ~839 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mountain at ≈ 912k–1.5M copies, ≈ $248k–$668k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 376 reviews in their first month; the range was 180 to 562.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Idler (5 of 8) and Tower Defense (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + God Game, priced around $1.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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 70 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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