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Action indie game City Defense Z launched in 2025 from good-mood-games, which is listed as both developer and publisher. It has 288 Steam reviews at 0% positive/mixed and an initial $9.99 price point, positioning it as a budget release with weak review signals.
Overview
City Defense Z is a 2025 Action game developed by Good Mood Games and published by Good Mood Games. On Steam it has gathered 300 player reviews, 76% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Good Mood Games with publisher Good Mood 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 6,000 to 15,000 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, City Defense Z can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
300
Positive
76%
Steam appid
2635500
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.06K to 15K
units (median: 11K)
≈ $36K to $84K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_76% | 0 |
| final NB | 35 |
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 City Defense Z at roughly 6,000 to 15,000 copies, with a median around 11,000, derived from its 300 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $60K 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
14 observed days · window low $6.99Across 14 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-02, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $6.99 on 2026-07-29.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has City Defense Z sold?
- indielist estimates City Defense Z has sold between 6,300 and 14,700 units (median 10,500), derived from its 300 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed City Defense Z?
- City Defense Z was developed by Good Mood Games and published by Good Mood Games.
- Who published City Defense Z?
- City Defense Z was published by Good Mood Games, developed by Good Mood Games. See Good Mood Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was City Defense Z released?
- City Defense Z was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does City Defense Z have on Steam?
- City Defense Z has 300 Steam reviews, of which 76% are positive.
- Is City Defense Z worth playing?
- Steam players rate City Defense Z 76% positive across 300 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.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like City Defense Z can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Good Mood Games's other releases and Good Mood Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where City Defense Z 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 City Defense Z 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.
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