How much revenue did Defending Earth make?

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

How many copies did Defending Earth sell?

Q: How many copies did Defending Earth 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 Defending Earth out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Defending Earth's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–679k

best case 1.3M (Company of Heroes 3)

Games like Defending Earth

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–679k copies

≈ $28k–$6.0M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Historical (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Company of Heroes 3 at ≈ 992k–1.6M copies, ≈ $16.4M–$44.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Historical (3 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + RTS, priced around $60.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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