How much revenue did Immortal Defense make?

$29k–$79k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Immortal Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did Immortal Defense sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 218 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $29k–$79k after Steam's cut $53k–$121k before Steam's cut; from 218 reviews (Very 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 Immortal Defense and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Immortal Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 53k–95k

best case 255k (DG2: Defense Grid 2)

Games like Immortal Defense

A typical game among these

≈ 53k–95k copies

≈ $268k–$487k 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: DG2: Defense Grid 2 at ≈ 194k–315k copies, ≈ $533k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (6 of 8) and Tower Defense (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Sci-fi, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2023, and none of them 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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