How much revenue did Prime World: Defenders make?

$183k–$492k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Prime World: Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Prime World: Defenders sell?

67k to 108k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 67k–108k; $183k–$492k after Steam's cut $333k–$758k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly Positive)

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 Prime World: Defenders and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Prime World: Defenders's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–62k

best case 87k (Prime World: Defenders 2)

Games like Prime World: Defenders

A typical game among these

≈ 14k–62k copies

≈ $53k–$156k after Steam's cut

from ~614 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Prime World: Defenders 2 at ≈ 67k–108k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 312 reviews in their first month; the range was 15 to 878.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (7 of 8) and Tower Defense (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Card Game.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 38 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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