How much revenue did Reverse Defenders make?

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

How many copies did Reverse Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Reverse Defenders sell?

942 to 2k copies, based on its 38 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 942–2k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before the cut; from 38 reviews (Mixed)

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 Reverse Defenders out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Reverse Defenders's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–77k

best case 179k (Ratropolis)

Games like Reverse Defenders

The middle of these games

≈ 14k–77k copies

≈ $76k–$508k after Steam's cut

from ~604 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ratropolis at ≈ 137k–222k copies, ≈ $676k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 361 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Card Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Deckbuilding + Card Battler, priced around $18.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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