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How many copies did Abfense sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 25–40
$34–$91 after Steam's cut $62–$140 before Steam's cut
from 1 review (1 user reviews)
Only 1 review 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 Abfense and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Abfense's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–40k
best case 82k (Artisan TD)
Games like Abfense

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–40k copies

≈ $7k–$106k after Steam's cut

from ~260 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: Artisan TD at ≈ 63k–102k copies, ≈ $293k–$789k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 22 reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 2k.
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 (8 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Puzzle, priced around $17.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 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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