How much revenue did Stars And Empires: Colony Defense make?

$103–$273 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stars And Empires: Colony Defense sell?

Q: How many copies did Stars And Empires: Colony Defense sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $103–$273 after Steam's cut $187–$420 before the cut; from 1 reviews (1 user reviews); Thin evidence: 1 review. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Stars And Empires: Colony Defense out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stars And Empires: Colony Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 36k–76k

best case 144k (3on3 FreeStyle: Rebound)

Games like Stars And Empires: Colony Defense

The middle of these games

≈ 36k–76k copies

≈ $122k–$322k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 3on3 FreeStyle: Rebound at ≈ 110k–179k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 266 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 109 to 791.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (6 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Basketball + Team-Based.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 1 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 43 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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