How much revenue did Anx Defense make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Anx Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did Anx Defense sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 44 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut; from 44 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 Anx Defense and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Anx Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–657k

best case 13.0M (Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition)

Games like Anx Defense

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–657k copies

≈ $81k–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $13.6M–$36.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 73 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 840.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automation (5 of 8) and Base-Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Zombies, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2025, and 3 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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