How much revenue did Galactic Defense: Automation make?

$382–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Galactic Defense: Automation sell?

Q: How many copies did Galactic Defense: Automation sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $382–$1k after Steam's cut $695–$2k before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 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 Galactic Defense: Automation and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Galactic Defense: Automation's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 142k–397k

best case 572k (Bad North: Jotunn Edition)

Games like Galactic Defense: Automation

A typical game among these

≈ 142k–397k copies

≈ $896k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Bad North: Jotunn Edition at ≈ 436k–709k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + Vikings, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2023, and none of them 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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Bad North: Jotunn Edition 2018	Est. copies ≈ 436k–709k 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	14k reviews Very Positive	WargameVikings
Stronghold: Definitive Edition 2023	Est. copies ≈ 258k–419k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	10k reviews Very Positive	City BuilderStrategy
Warpips 2022	Est. copies ≈ 130k–211k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $605k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$16.99	5k reviews Very Positive	StrategyTower Defense
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