How much revenue did Iconia Defenders make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Iconia Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Iconia Defenders sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 21 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 Iconia Defenders out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Iconia Defenders's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–17k

best case 124k (Emberward)

Games like Iconia Defenders

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–17k copies

≈ $4k–$130k after Steam's cut

from ~160 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: Emberward at ≈ 95k–154k copies, ≈ $520k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 82 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 555.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Deckbuilding (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Rogue-lite, priced around $20.
The era: 6 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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