How much revenue did Massive Defense make?

$163–$440 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Massive Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did Massive Defense sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $163–$440 after Steam's cut $296–$677 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 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 Massive Defense and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Massive Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–66k

best case 1.3M (Company of Heroes 3)

Games like Massive Defense

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–66k copies

≈ $45k–$790k after Steam's cut

from ~665 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Company of Heroes 3 at ≈ 1.0M–1.6M copies, ≈ $16.5M–$44.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 144 reviews in their first month; the range was 55 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Wargame (8 of 8) and Action RTS (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + RTS, priced around $60.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 43 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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