How much revenue did Abfense make?

$34–$91 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Abfense sell?

Q: How many copies did Abfense sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $34–$91 after Steam's cut $62–$140 before the cut; from 1 reviews (1 user reviews); Thin evidence: 1 review. 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 Abfense out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Abfense's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–40k

best case 82k (Artisan TD)

Games like Abfense

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–40k copies

≈ $7k–$106k after Steam's cut

from ~258 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Artisan TD at ≈ 62k–101k copies, ≈ $291k–$782k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 22 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Puzzle, priced around $17.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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