How many copies did Nomad Defender sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Nomad Defender make?

Nomad Defender is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Nomad Defender?

Estimated owners: ≈ 1k–2k; from 50 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 Nomad Defender out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nomad Defender's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 448–12k

best case 41k (Tower Tactics: Liberation)

Games like Nomad Defender

The middle of these games

≈ 448–12k copies

≈ $1k–$78k after Steam's cut

from ~99 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Tower Tactics: Liberation at ≈ 31k–50k copies, ≈ $111k–$298k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 27 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 747.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Tower Defense (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Tower Defense, priced around $13.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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