How many copies did Freedom Defender sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 158 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Freedom Defender make?

Freedom Defender is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Freedom Defender?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 5k–9k; from 158 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 Freedom Defender and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Freedom Defender's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–46k

best case 143k (Kandidatos)

Games like Freedom Defender

A typical game among these

≈ 24k–46k copies

≈ $37k–$113k after Steam's cut

from ~912 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Political (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Kandidatos at ≈ 109k–177k copies, ≈ $30k–$80k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 109 reviews in their first month; the range was 24 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Political (4 of 8) and Satire (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + Political, priced around $1.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

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Kandidatos 2020	Est. copies ≈ 109k–177k 4.8x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $30k–$80k after Steam's cut $54k–$123k before Steam's cut	$0.99	4k reviews Very Positive	FightingPolitical
Chaotic Airport Construction Manager 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $14k–$38k after Steam's cut $26k–$58k before Steam's cut	$7.99	259 reviews Very Positive	SimulationSatire
Not For Broadcast: Prologue 2019	Est. copies ≈ 22k–36k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	766 reviews Very Positive	Time ManagementPolitics
PROXIMATE 2024	Est. copies ≈ 25k–41k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $41k–$111k after Steam's cut $75k–$170k before Steam's cut	$5.99	1k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
Obama Boss Fight 2021	Est. copies ≈ 20k–33k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $30k–$69k before Steam's cut	$2.99	816 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FunnyAction
Psycholonials 2021	Est. copies ≈ 29k–47k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelDark
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love 2019	Est. copies ≈ 12k–20k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $68k–$183k after Steam's cut $123k–$281k before Steam's cut	$19.99	429 reviews Very Positive	AdventurePoint & Click
CUCKOLD SIMULATOR: Life as a Beta Male Cuck 2025	Est. copies ≈ 53k–86k 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $73k–$196k after Steam's cut $132k–$301k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessIndie