Tags · Data as of October 12, 2026
How much do Tower Defense games make on Steam?
Median revenue
$800
All Steam: $1.1K
Middle half earn
$120–$7K
Top 10% earn over
$76.6K
All Steam: $94.4K
Earn over $100K
9%
All Steam: 10%
Games
2,933
How revenue is spread
Under $1K
1,537
$1K–10K
752
$10K–100K
390
$100K–1M
162
$1M–10M
71
$10M+
21
Median revenue by price
Under $5
$2571,460 games
$5–10
$2K883 games
$10–15
$8.8K350 games
$15–20
$60.6K148 games
$20–30
$240.8K50 games
$30+
$12.6K42 games
Median revenue by release year
2008
$864.2K2 games
2009
$184.6K4 games
2010
$25.6K2 games
2011
$199.4K13 games
2012
$42.8K11 games
2013
$121.7K20 games
2014
$26.1K50 games
2015
$15K47 games
2016
$8.1K96 games
2017
$2.4K100 games
2018
$3.1K100 games
2019
$2.1K84 games
2020
$1.1K142 games
2021
$1.2K178 games
2022
$799224 games
2023
$576294 games
2024
$559455 games
2025
$409492 games
2026
$318619 games
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Top developers
- The Fun Pimps1 games · $592.5M
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- Ironhide Game Studio6 games · $37.6M
- EXOR Studios2 games · $35M
- PopCap Games, Inc.1 games · $34.5M
- Fury Studios2 games · $32.9M
- Robot Entertainment4 games · $32.4M
Top publishers
- The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC2 games · $592.6M
- SEGA4 games · $309.1M
- Feral Interactive1 games · $306.3M
- Ninja Kiwi2 games · $241.3M
- Numantian Games1 games · $68M
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- Electronic Arts3 games · $62.2M
- Ironhide Game Studio6 games · $37.6M
- EXOR Studios2 games · $35M
- PopCap Games, Inc.1 games · $34.5M