How much revenue did Medieval Defenders make?

$44k–$117k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Medieval Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Medieval Defenders sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 254 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $44k–$117k after Steam's cut $79k–$180k before Steam's cut; from 254 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 352k–796k

best case 773k (Thronefall)

Games like Medieval Defenders

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≈ 352k–796k copies

≈ $2.0M–$4.1M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Thronefall at ≈ 589k–957k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + City Builder, priced around $13.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, 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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