How much revenue did Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin make?

$45k–$121k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin sell?

Q: How many copies did Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 329 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $45k–$121k after Steam's cut $82k–$186k before Steam's cut; from 329 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 Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 236–47k

best case 292k (Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition))

Games like Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin

A typical game among these

≈ 236–47k copies

≈ $462–$267k after Steam's cut

from ~41 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: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) at ≈ 222k–361k copies, ≈ $916k–$2.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 262.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Tactical RPG (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Female Protagonist, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, and 2 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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