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How many copies did Immortal Defense sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 11k–17k
$29k–$79k after Steam's cut $53k–$121k before the cut
from 219 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Immortal Defense out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Immortal Defense's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 53k–95k
best case 253k (DG2: Defense Grid 2)
Games like Immortal Defense

The middle of these games

≈ 53k–95k copies

≈ $269k–$487k 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: DG2: Defense Grid 2 at ≈ 193k–314k copies, ≈ $530k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Sci-fi (6 of 8) and Tower Defense (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Sci-fi, priced around $10.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 to 2023, and none of them 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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