How much revenue did Galactic Defense: Automation make?

$382–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Galactic Defense: Automation sell?

Q: How many copies did Galactic Defense: Automation sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $382–$1k after Steam's cut $695–$2k before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 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 Galactic Defense: Automation out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Galactic Defense: Automation's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 141k–394k

best case 565k (Bad North: Jotunn Edition)

Games like Galactic Defense: Automation

The middle of these games

≈ 141k–394k copies

≈ $890k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

All 8 of your 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + Vikings, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2023, and none of them 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 79 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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