How much revenue did EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 make?

$3.0M–$8.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 sell?

Q: How many copies did EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 sell?

180k to 293k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 180k–293k; $3.0M–$8.0M after Steam's cut $5.4M–$12.3M before Steam's cut; from 7k reviews (Mixed)

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 EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 319k–486k

best case 37.9M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)

Games like EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6

A typical game among these

≈ 319k–486k copies

≈ $2.5M–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.9M–46.9M copies, ≈ $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut. 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 21k reviews in their first month; the range was 264 to 251k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Sci-fi, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Horror + Space + Survival Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, 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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HELLDIVERS™ 2 2024	Est. copies ≈ 28.9M–46.9M 168x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut $577.5M–$1313.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	1.2M reviews Mostly Positive	Online Co-OpPvE
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