How much revenue did Ukraine Defender make?

$163–$438 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ukraine Defender sell?

Q: How many copies did Ukraine Defender sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $163–$438 after Steam's cut $296–$674 before Steam's cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Only 8 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 Ukraine Defender and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ukraine Defender's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–2.3M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like Ukraine Defender

A typical game among these

≈ 1.9M–2.3M copies

≈ $14.3M–$49.9M after Steam's cut

from ~60k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 73k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Flight (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Vehicular Combat + Combat; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2026, 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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