How much revenue did Mages Defense make?

$491–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mages Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did Mages Defense sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $491–$1k after Steam's cut $893–$2k before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 336k–805k

best case 1.3M (Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense)

Games like Mages Defense

The middle of these games

≈ 336k–805k copies

≈ $2.3M–$3.8M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense at ≈ 957k–1.6M copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 394 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Fantasy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Tactical, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 2 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense 2014	Est. copies ≈ 957k–1.6M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.6M–$7.1M after Steam's cut $4.8M–$10.9M before the cut	$9.99	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense 2020	Est. copies ≈ 269k–437k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before the cut	$19.99	11k reviews Very Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense 2018	Est. copies ≈ 243k–396k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.2M before the cut	$14.99	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy
Towaga: Among Shadows 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6k–9k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	232 reviews Very Positive	Action-AdventureHand-drawn
Bacon Tales - Between Pigs and Wolves 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before the cut	$1.99	71 reviews Mixed	RTSTower Defense
Dwerve 2022	Est. copies ≈ 14k–22k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $75k–$202k after Steam's cut $136k–$310k before the cut	$19.99	550 reviews Mostly Positive	Action-AdventureTower Defense
Countless Army 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before the cut	$9.99	96 reviews Mostly Positive	StrategyTower Defense
Age of Defense 2024	Est. copies ≈ 18k–29k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $74k–$199k after Steam's cut $134k–$306k before the cut	$14.99	723 reviews Mostly Positive	Tower DefenseStrategy