How much revenue did EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 make?

$2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 sell?

Q: How many copies did EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 sell?

179k to 290k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 179k–290k; $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.4M–$12.2M before the cut; from 7k reviews (Mixed)

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 EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 318k–484k

best case 37.7M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)

Games like EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6

The middle of these games

≈ 318k–484k copies

≈ $2.5M–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.7M–46.7M copies, ≈ $315.9M–$849.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 21k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 264 to 251k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Sci-fi, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Horror + Space + Survival Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 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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