How much revenue did Band of Defenders make?

$33k–$90k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Band of Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Band of Defenders sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 399 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $33k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$138k before Steam's cut; from 399 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 Band of Defenders and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Band of Defenders's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 157k–246k

best case 317k (Zula Global)

Games like Band of Defenders

A typical game among these

≈ 157k–246k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Zula Global at ≈ 242k–393k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 254 reviews in their first month; the range was 56 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2026, 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 43 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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