How much revenue did Defence to death make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Defence to death sell?

Q: How many copies did Defence to death sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 282 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before the cut; from 282 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 323k–1.2M

best case 2.5M (Minion Masters)

Games like Defence to death

The middle of these games

≈ 323k–1.2M copies

≈ $1.8M–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Minion Masters at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 24 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RTS (5 of 8) and Tower Defense (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Trading Card Game + Turn-Based Tactics.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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