How much revenue did Dungeon Defenders make?

$4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dungeon Defenders sell?

Q: How many copies did Dungeon Defenders sell?

1.2M to 1.9M copies, based on its 19k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–1.9M; $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.5M before the cut; from 19k reviews (Very Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23.4M–38.0M

best case 39.3M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Dungeon Defenders

The middle of these games

≈ 23.4M–38.0M copies

≈ $225.2M–$712.7M after Steam's cut

from ~505k 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: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.7M copies, ≈ $494.5M–$1329.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 8) and Third Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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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