How many copies has Dungeon Defenders sold?

indielist estimates Dungeon Defenders has sold between 653,562 and 1,524,978 units (median 1,089,270), derived from its 12,103 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Dungeon Defenders?

Dungeon Defenders was developed by Chromatic Games and published by Chromatic Games.

Who published Dungeon Defenders?

Dungeon Defenders was published by Chromatic Games, developed by Chromatic Games. See Chromatic Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Dungeon Defenders released?

Dungeon Defenders was released in 2011.

How many reviews does Dungeon Defenders have on Steam?

Dungeon Defenders has 12,103 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.

Is Dungeon Defenders worth playing?

Steam players rate Dungeon Defenders 93% positive across 12,103 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.

Dungeon Defenders

Oct 18, 2011 Action $14.99

Developer Chromatic Games Publisher Chromatic Games

Profile updated Jul 2026

Action tower defense indie game built around multiplayer, online co-op, singleplayer, and strategy play. Released in 2011 by Chromatic Games as developer and publisher, Dungeon Defenders has 12,103 Steam reviews with 93% positive and launched at $14.99.

Dungeon Defenders is a 2011 Action game developed by Chromatic Games and published by Chromatic Games. On Steam it has gathered 12,103 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Chromatic Games with publisher Chromatic Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 654,000 to 1.5 million 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, Dungeon Defenders can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

12,103

Positive

93%

Steam appid

65800

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

654K to 1.5M

units (median: 1.1M)

≈ $5.6M to $13.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

654K median 1.5M

+ How is this calculated?

12,103 reviews × NB(90) = 1,089,270 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2011	+30
price_$15	0
positive_93%	+10
final NB	90

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 Dungeon Defenders at roughly 654,000 to 1.5 million copies, with a median around 1.1 million, derived from its 12,103 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.3M 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

50 observed days · window low $2.99

Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Dungeon Defenders sold?: indielist estimates Dungeon Defenders has sold between 653,562 and 1,524,978 units (median 1,089,270), derived from its 12,103 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Dungeon Defenders?: Dungeon Defenders was developed by Chromatic Games and published by Chromatic Games.
Who published Dungeon Defenders?: Dungeon Defenders was published by Chromatic Games, developed by Chromatic Games. See Chromatic Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Dungeon Defenders released?: Dungeon Defenders was released in 2011.
How many reviews does Dungeon Defenders have on Steam?: Dungeon Defenders has 12,103 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Is Dungeon Defenders worth playing?: Steam players rate Dungeon Defenders 93% positive across 12,103 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 Dungeon Defenders can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Enshrouded, Orcs Must Die! 2, Scrap Mechanic, ARK: Survival Ascended, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Chromatic Games's other releases and Chromatic Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dungeon Defenders 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 Dungeon Defenders page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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.