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How many copies did Streamlands: Defense sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 50–81
$55–$147 after Steam's cut $100–$226 before Steam's cut
from 2 reviews (2 user reviews)
Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Streamlands: Defense and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Streamlands: Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 268k–995k
best case 1.7M (Foxhole)
Games like Streamlands: Defense

A typical game among these

≈ 268k–995k copies

≈ $3.0M–$12.2M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Foxhole at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.9M–$29.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 328 reviews in their first month; the range was 14 to 24k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share War (6 of 8) and Tower Defense (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Wargame + Military, priced around $30.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2026, 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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