How much revenue did Stardust Defenders make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stardust Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Stardust Defenders sell?

818 to 1k copies, based on its 33 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 818–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 33 reviews (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 Stardust Defenders and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stardust Defenders's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–46k

best case 50k (Necrosmith 2)

Games like Stardust Defenders

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–46k copies

≈ $36k–$193k after Steam's cut

from ~840 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: Necrosmith 2 at ≈ 38k–62k copies, ≈ $83k–$224k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 337 reviews in their first month; the range was 244 to 840.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Rogue-lite, priced around $8.
When they shipped: 6 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 70 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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