EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$4.99Mest

grossAtFullPrice $4.99M · promo blend

Net to developer

$3.21Mest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

332,964▼ 100.0%

0 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$00% of LTD

0 units · $0.00 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 9,249 reviews collected over 6.8 years; English-dominant audience; non-Early-Access.

01 Revenue · monthly

Gross consumer spend USD

Gross

02 Lifetime breakdown

Launch window vs tail · units & spend

30 days launch window

Launch · units

00.0%

Tail · units

333K

332,964100.0%

Launch · gross

$00.0%

Tail · gross

$4.99M

$4.99M100.0%

Net to dev

$3.21M

$3.21M64.4%

01 Like Score

qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus

Tier C · ▲ 29 7d

DC ●BAS

Inbound

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

75%

→ 69

Score history · 30d retention

46 (14d ago)69 (now)

02 Top inbound contributors

Games whose “More Like This” lists rank EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 · 32 inbound · top 10 shown

qualityScore 69

MADNESS: Project Nexus15K reviews · 97% pos · GIBBING TREE, LLC · 2021

+4.1

EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair7.7K reviews · 95% pos · SANDLOT · 2016

+3.7

Vanquish6.7K reviews · 89% pos · PlatinumGames · 2017

+3.4

X-Morph: Defense3.2K reviews · 90% pos · EXOR Studios · 2017

+3.2

HARDCORE MECHA2.3K reviews · 83% pos · RocketPunch Games · 2019

+2.8

Metal Wolf Chaos XD765 reviews · 83% pos · General Arcade · 2019

+2.4

No More Heroes 3783 reviews · 80% pos · GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC. · 2022

+2.3

Valfaris: Mecha Therion274 reviews · 94% pos · Steel Mantis · 2023

+2.3

ZONE OF THE ENDERS THE 2nd RUNNER : M∀RS / アヌビスゾーン・オブ・エンダーズ : マーズ1.0K reviews · 71% pos · KONAMI · 2018

+2.1

MDK 2214 reviews · 81% pos · BioWare Corporation · 2009

+1.9

+ 14 more inbound gamesLong tail · ranks across catalog

+16.8

03 EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5’s “More like this”

Outbound MLT · 30 games

#7The First Descendant

57%111K

#8John Carpenter's Toxic Commando

75%5.5K

Review score

8/ 9

Very Positive

% positive

94.1%cohort 71%

8,753 pos · 547 neg

Total reviews

9.3Ktracked

9,300 crawled

Velocity · 30d

1 / dayest

39 this month

Steam-purchase rate

79.5%flat

20.5% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive

27 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

62.9%5,84696%

ZHSimplified Chinese

16.0%1,49094%

JAJapanese

5.6%51982%

TWTraditional Chinese

3.4%31891%

RURussian

2.8%25892%

KOKorean

2.1%19892%

DEGerman

1.5%13994%

ESSpanish

1.2%11696%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

1.2%10796%

FRFrench

1.0%8990%

THThai

0.9%8294%

ESLatin American Spanish

0.3%2789%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 251

51%positive

2.7% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 2,139

93%positive

23.0% of reviews

10-100h 5,517

96%positive

59.3% of reviews

100h+ 1,393

97%positive

15.0% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 8,753Negative 547

378284189950

19·1120·0921·0722·0523·0324·0124·1125·0926·04

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

9,300 reviews

Free product

134/ 9,300

1.4% of total93% positive

Early access

0/ 9,300

0.0% of total— no data

Key activation

1,776/ 9,300

19.1% of total95% positive

Steam Deck

49/ 9,300

0.5% of total92% positive

Steam purchase

7,390/ 9,300

79.5% of total94% positive

Recommended

8,753/ 9,300

94.1% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

547/ 9,300

5.9% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

9,300/ 9,300

100.0% of total94% positive

9,249 reviews · 94% positive

Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.