How many copies did Freedom Defender sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 157 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Freedom Defender make?

Freedom Defender is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Freedom Defender?

Estimated owners: ≈ 5k–9k; from 157 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 Freedom Defender out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Freedom Defender's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–46k

best case 142k (Kandidatos)

Games like Freedom Defender

The middle of these games

≈ 24k–46k copies

≈ $37k–$113k after Steam's cut

from ~899 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Political (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Kandidatos at ≈ 108k–176k copies, ≈ $29k–$79k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 110 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 24 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Political (4 of 8) and Satire (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + Political, priced around $1.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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Kandidatos 2020	Est. copies ≈ 108k–176k 4.8x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $29k–$79k after Steam's cut $53k–$122k before the cut	$0.99	4k reviews Very Positive	FightingPolitical
Chaotic Airport Construction Manager 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $14k–$38k after Steam's cut $26k–$59k before the cut	$7.99	260 reviews Very Positive	SimulationSatire
Not For Broadcast: Prologue 2019	Est. copies ≈ 22k–36k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	767 reviews Very Positive	Time ManagementPolitics
PROXIMATE 2024	Est. copies ≈ 24k–40k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $40k–$108k after Steam's cut $73k–$166k before the cut	$5.99	982 reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
Obama Boss Fight 2021	Est. copies ≈ 20k–33k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $30k–$69k before the cut	$2.99	816 reviews Very Positive	FunnyAction
Psycholonials 2021	Est. copies ≈ 29k–47k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelDark
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love 2019	Est. copies ≈ 12k–20k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $68k–$183k after Steam's cut $124k–$282k before the cut	$19.99	430 reviews Very Positive	AdventurePoint & Click
CUCKOLD SIMULATOR: Life as a Beta Male Cuck 2025	Est. copies ≈ 53k–86k 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $73k–$195k after Steam's cut $132k–$300k before the cut	$4.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessIndie