How much revenue did AOD: Art Of Defense make?

AOD: Art Of Defense is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did AOD: Art Of Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did AOD: Art Of Defense sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 391 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; from 391 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left AOD: Art Of Defense out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AOD: Art Of Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 36k–83k

best case 565k (Bad North: Jotunn Edition)

Games like AOD: Art Of Defense

The middle of these games

≈ 36k–83k copies

≈ $106k–$537k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Bad North: Jotunn Edition at ≈ 431k–700k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 291 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 109 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Real Time Tactics (7 of 8) and RTS (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + Vikings, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 3 of your 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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