How much revenue did Defend from Candyland! make?

$927–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Defend from Candyland! sell?

Q: How many copies did Defend from Candyland! sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $927–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 17 reviews (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 Defend from Candyland! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Defend from Candyland!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 562–11k

best case 12k (All Aboard! The Train Defense Express)

Games like Defend from Candyland!

The middle of these games

≈ 562–11k copies

≈ $2k–$13k after Steam's cut

from ~63 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: All Aboard! The Train Defense Express at ≈ 9k–15k copies, ≈ $13k–$35k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 32 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 316.

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 Clicker (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Auto Battler + Survival, priced around $5.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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