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How many copies did Underground Defense Force -Sword and Sorcery and Swarm of Insects- sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 471–766
$905–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut
from 19 reviews (Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Underground Defense Force -Sword and Sorcery and Swarm of Insects- out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Underground Defense Force -Sword and Sorcery and Swarm of Insects-'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 123k–236k
best case 2.0M (Persona 3 Reload)
Games like Underground Defense Force -Sword and Sorcery and Swarm of Insects-

The middle of these games

≈ 123k–236k copies

≈ $658k–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Persona 3 Reload at ≈ 1.6M–2.5M copies, ≈ $25.6M–$68.8M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 285 to 16k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Party-Based RPG (8 of 8) and Action RPG (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Party-Based RPG + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $47. The breakout hits carry Turn-Based Strategy + Adventure + Dating Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2005 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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