How much revenue did Iconia Defenders make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Iconia Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Iconia Defenders sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 21 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 Iconia Defenders and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Iconia Defenders's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–17k

best case 139k (Emberward)

Games like Iconia Defenders

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–17k copies

≈ $4k–$133k after Steam's cut

from ~161 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Emberward at ≈ 106k–172k copies, ≈ $584k–$1.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 82 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 4k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Deckbuilding (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Rogue-lite, priced around $20.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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