How many copies has Defense Grid: The Awakening sold?

indielist estimates Defense Grid: The Awakening has sold between 230,571 and 537,999 units (median 384,285), derived from its 4,521 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Defense Grid: The Awakening?

Defense Grid: The Awakening was published by Hidden Path Entertainment, developed by Hidden Path Entertainment. See Hidden Path Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Defense Grid: The Awakening released?

Defense Grid: The Awakening was released in 2008.

How many reviews does Defense Grid: The Awakening have on Steam?

Defense Grid: The Awakening has 4,521 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is Defense Grid: The Awakening worth playing?

Steam players rate Defense Grid: The Awakening 96% positive across 4,521 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Defense Grid: The Awakening

Dec 8, 2008 Indie $9.99

Developer Hidden Path Entertainment Publisher Hidden Path Entertainment

Profile updated Jul 2026

Indie game positioning with a budget $9.99 entry point, Defense Grid: The Awakening launched in 2008. Hidden Path Entertainment is listed as both developer and publisher, with 5,357 Steam reviews and a 96% positive rating.

Defense Grid: The Awakening is a 2008 Indie game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and published by Hidden Path Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 4,521 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Hidden Path Entertainment with publisher Hidden Path Entertainment is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 231,000 to 538,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Defense Grid: The Awakening can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

4,521

Positive

96%

Steam appid

18500

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

231K to 538K

units (median: 384K)

≈ $1.3M to $3.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

231K median 538K

+ How is this calculated?

4,521 reviews × NB(85) = 384,285 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2008	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_96%	+10
final NB	85

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Defense Grid: The Awakening at roughly 231,000 to 538,000 copies, with a median around 384,000, derived from its 4,521 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

8 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-15.

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Platforms

windows

Genres

IndieStrategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Defense Grid: The Awakening sold?: indielist estimates Defense Grid: The Awakening has sold between 230,571 and 537,999 units (median 384,285), derived from its 4,521 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Defense Grid: The Awakening?: Defense Grid: The Awakening was developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and published by Hidden Path Entertainment.
Who published Defense Grid: The Awakening?: Defense Grid: The Awakening was published by Hidden Path Entertainment, developed by Hidden Path Entertainment. See Hidden Path Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Defense Grid: The Awakening released?: Defense Grid: The Awakening was released in 2008.
How many reviews does Defense Grid: The Awakening have on Steam?: Defense Grid: The Awakening has 4,521 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is Defense Grid: The Awakening worth playing?: Steam players rate Defense Grid: The Awakening 96% positive across 4,521 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Defense Grid: The Awakening can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Hidden Path Entertainment's other releases and Hidden Path Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Defense Grid: The Awakening sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Defense Grid: The Awakening page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.