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Action tower defense built around multiplayer, online co-op, singleplayer, and strategy elements. Released in 2011 by Chromatic Games, which also publishes it, Dungeon Defenders lists 18,861 Steam reviews with 93% positive sentiment and an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
Dungeon Defenders is a 2011 Action game developed by Chromatic Games and published by Chromatic Games. On Steam it has gathered 18,870 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 1.0 million to 2.4 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
18,870
Positive
93%
Steam appid
65800
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.0M to 2.4M
units (median: 1.7M)
≈ $8.7M to $20.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2011 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dungeon Defenders at roughly 1.0 million to 2.4 million copies, with a median around 1.7 million, derived from its 18,870 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $14.5M 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
90d · low $8.68Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $8.68 to $14.99, averaging $13.63 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $8.68 on 2026-05-03.
Synthetic series for demo. Real ITAD price history loads after Day 3 ingest.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
MultiplayerOnline Co-OpTower DefenseSingleplayerStrategySurvivalAction RPGCharacter CustomizationTacticalFamily FriendlyFunnyBuildingFantasyPvEStrategy RPGModdableRPG3DThird PersonTeam-Based
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dungeon Defenders sold?
- indielist estimates Dungeon Defenders has sold between 1,018,980 and 2,377,620 units (median 1,698,300), derived from its 18,870 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- When was Dungeon Defenders released?
- Dungeon Defenders was released in 2011.
- How many reviews does Dungeon Defenders have on Steam?
- Dungeon Defenders has 18,870 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Dungeon Defenders within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. 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.