How much revenue did Defy Gravity Extended make?

$194k–$522k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Defy Gravity Extended sell?

Q: How many copies did Defy Gravity Extended sell?

355k to 576k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 355k–576k; $194k–$522k after Steam's cut $353k–$803k before Steam's cut; from 9k reviews (Very 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 Defy Gravity Extended and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Defy Gravity Extended's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.9M–5.3M

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Defy Gravity Extended

A typical game among these

≈ 3.9M–5.3M copies

≈ $23.6M–$40.5M after Steam's cut

from ~75k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (5 of 8) and Dark (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2021, and none of them 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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