How much revenue did Medieval Defenders make?

$44k–$118k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Medieval Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Medieval Defenders sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 255 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $44k–$118k after Steam's cut $80k–$181k before the cut; from 255 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 349k–790k

best case 765k (Thronefall)

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The middle of these games

≈ 349k–790k copies

≈ $2.0M–$4.1M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Thronefall at ≈ 583k–947k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.6M 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 1k to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + City Builder, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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