How much revenue did Stardust Defenders make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stardust Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Stardust Defenders sell?

818 to 1k copies, based on its 33 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 818–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 33 reviews (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 Stardust Defenders out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stardust Defenders's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–65k

best case 111k (Bardbarian)

Games like Stardust Defenders

The middle of these games

≈ 40k–65k copies

≈ $150k–$314k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Bardbarian at ≈ 85k–137k copies, ≈ $186k–$500k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 337 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 244 to 839.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Action Roguelike, priced around $8.
The era: 6 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 70 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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