How much revenue did Apex Defenders make?

$102–$275 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Apex Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Apex Defenders sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $102–$275 after Steam's cut $185–$423 before the cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Thin evidence: 5 reviews. 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 Apex Defenders out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Apex Defenders's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–13.4M

best case 87.5M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Apex Defenders

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–13.4M copies

≈ $8k–$142.3M after Steam's cut

from ~83k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 66.7M–108.4M copies, ≈ $183.2M–$492.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Zombies (8 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, 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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