How much revenue did Anx Defense make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Anx Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did Anx Defense sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 44 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut; from 44 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 Anx Defense out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Anx Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–650k

best case 12.9M (Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition)

Games like Anx Defense

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–650k copies

≈ $80k–$3.5M 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.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition at ≈ 9.8M–16.0M copies, ≈ $13.5M–$36.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 73 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 839.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automation (5 of 8) and Base-Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Zombies, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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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