How much revenue did Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) make?

$914k–$2.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) sell?

Q: How many copies did Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) sell?

222k to 360k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 222k–360k; $914k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Very 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 Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–25k

best case 88k (Prime World: Defenders)

Games like Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–25k copies

≈ $4k–$163k after Steam's cut

from ~359 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: Prime World: Defenders at ≈ 67k–108k copies, ≈ $183k–$492k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 42 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 262.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Tactical RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Card Game, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 3 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 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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