How much revenue did Defence to death make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Defence to death sell?

Q: How many copies did Defence to death sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 279 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut; from 279 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 323k–1.2M

best case 2.5M (Minion Masters)

Games like Defence to death

A typical game among these

≈ 323k–1.2M copies

≈ $1.8M–$4.7M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Minion Masters at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 24 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share RTS (5 of 8) and Tower Defense (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Trading Card Game + Turn-Based Tactics.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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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