How much revenue did MechDefender - Tower Defense make?

$13k–$34k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MechDefender - Tower Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did MechDefender - Tower Defense sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 371 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$52k before Steam's cut; from 371 reviews (Mostly 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 MechDefender - Tower Defense and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including MechDefender - Tower Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–69k

best case 110k (Warhammer 40,000: Warpforge)

Games like MechDefender - Tower Defense

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–69k copies

≈ $7k–$30k after Steam's cut

from ~316 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: Warhammer 40,000: Warpforge at ≈ 84k–136k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 55 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 2k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (6 of 8) and Trading Card Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Warhammer 40K.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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