How much revenue did Band of Defenders make?

$33k–$90k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Band of Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Band of Defenders sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 399 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $33k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$138k before the cut; from 399 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 Band of Defenders out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Band of Defenders's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 155k–245k

best case 317k (Zula Global)

Games like Band of Defenders

The middle of these games

≈ 155k–245k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Zula Global at ≈ 241k–392k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 254 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 56 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2026, 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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