How much revenue did Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon make?

$200k–$538k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon sell?

Q: How many copies did Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon sell?

73k to 118k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 73k–118k; $200k–$538k after Steam's cut $364k–$828k before the cut; from 1k 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 Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 139k–504k

best case 575k (EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair)

Games like Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon

The middle of these games

≈ 139k–504k copies

≈ $955k–$4.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of your 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair at ≈ 438k–712k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Third-Person Shooter (7 of 7) and Robots (5 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Co-op, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2016, 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 52 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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