How much revenue did Nexus Defenders make?

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

How many copies did Nexus Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Nexus Defenders sell?

868 to 1k copies, based on its 35 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 868–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 35 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 Nexus Defenders out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nexus Defenders's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–17k

best case 865k (Stronghold HD (2012))

Games like Nexus Defenders

The middle of these games

≈ 13k–17k copies

≈ $80k–$114k after Steam's cut

from ~451 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Stronghold HD (2012) at ≈ 659k–1.1M copies, ≈ $1.1M–$2.9M 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 212 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 64 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Real Time Tactics + City Builder, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry City Builder + Colony Sim + Sandbox; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 2 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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Stronghold HD (2012) 2013	Est. copies ≈ 659k–1.1M 23x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before the cut	$5.99	10k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Real Time TacticsCity Builder
Stronghold: Definitive Edition 2023	Est. copies ≈ 256k–416k 23x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.4M before the cut	$14.99	10k reviews Very Positive	City BuilderStrategy
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Siege of Centauri 2019	Est. copies ≈ 13k–21k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $54k–$144k after Steam's cut $97k–$221k before the cut	$14.99	451 reviews Mixed	Tower DefenseReal Time Tactics
Alien Shooter TD 2017	Est. copies ≈ 32k–51k 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $87k–$233k after Steam's cut $157k–$358k before the cut	$9.99	916 reviews Very Positive	Tower DefenseGore
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Rift Riff 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $35k–$93k after Steam's cut $63k–$143k before the cut	$12.99	391 reviews Very Positive	Tower DefenseMinimalist