How much revenue did Defender Bros make?

$14k–$39k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Defender Bros sell?

Q: How many copies did Defender Bros sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 106 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $14k–$39k after Steam's cut $26k–$60k before the cut; from 106 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 Defender Bros out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Defender Bros's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 58k–396k

best case 1.7M (Stronghold Crusader HD (2012))

Games like Defender Bros

The middle of these games

≈ 58k–396k copies

≈ $393k–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Best case: Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) at ≈ 1.3M–2.2M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$9.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RTS (5 of 8) and Military (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Military + City Builder, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 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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