How much revenue did Orbital Defence Command make?

$41–$109 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Orbital Defence Command sell?

Q: How many copies did Orbital Defence Command 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; $41–$109 after Steam's cut $74–$168 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 Orbital Defence Command and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Orbital Defence Command's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 309–73k

best case 568k (Zuma Deluxe)

Games like Orbital Defence Command

A typical game among these

≈ 309–73k copies

≈ $346–$56k after Steam's cut

from ~28 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: Zuma Deluxe at ≈ 433k–703k copies, ≈ $594k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 15.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Match 3 + Puzzle, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2025, 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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