City Defense Z — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$64Kest

grossAtFullPrice $85K · promo blend

Net to developer

$41Kest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

8,494▼ 100.0%

155 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$34K53% of LTD

5K units · $7.19 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 286 reviews collected over 8 months; balanced multi-language 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

4,66354.9%

Tail · units

3,83145.1%

Launch · gross

$34K

$34K52.7%

Tail · gross

$30K

$30K47.3%

Net to dev

$41K

$41K64.4%

01 Like Score

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

Tier C · ▼ 3 7d

DC ●BAS

Inbound

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

66%

→ 32

Score history · 30d retention

13 (14d ago)32 (now)

02 Top inbound contributors

Games whose “More Like This” lists rank City Defense Z · 33 inbound · top 10 shown

qualityScore 32

Poly TD510 reviews · 86% pos · Naroot · 2026

+2.3

Swarm the City: Zombie Evolved202 reviews · 76% pos · Seasun Games · 2022

+1.8

Idle TD: Heroes vs Zombies164 reviews · 73% pos · Swell Games LLC · 2022

+1.6

Arms Evolution: ZOMBIE DESTROYER269 reviews · 64% pos · Ash Game Studio · 2023

+1.6

Keyboard Soldier51 reviews · 88% pos · Rogisimo · 2024

+1.5

Envy the Dead178 reviews · 66% pos · Kazakov Oleg · 2016

+1.5

Choo Choo Survivor 239 reviews · 87% pos · GTGD · 2025

+1.4

Milky Way TD SURVIVORS AUTOBATTLER RTS: Earth34 reviews · 88% pos · MyDreamForever · 2024

+1.4

Lab 7: Cold Nights20 reviews · 95% pos · CaveDave · 2020

+1.3

Wukong Survivors ：Begin17 reviews · 100% pos · Seal233 · 2025

+1.3

+ 14 more inbound gamesLong tail · ranks across catalog

+7.6

03 City Defense Z’s “More like this”

Outbound MLT · 30 games

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#1Hull Rupture

0%0

#2The King is Watching

88%8.2K

#3Plague Inc: Evolved

94%55K

#4EverSiege: Untold Ages

69%1.6K

#5Sineus Arena Survivors

0%0

#8Infection Free Zone

80%16K

Review score

6/ 9

Mostly Positive

% positive

77.0%cohort 71%

231 pos · 69 neg

Total reviews

300tracked

300 crawled

Velocity · 30d

0 / dayest

9 this month

Steam-purchase rate

92.0%flat

8.0% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

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

20 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

49.0%14779%

TRTurkish

14.7%4493%

ZHSimplified Chinese

11.3%3459%

DEGerman

5.3%1669%

RURussian

5.0%1540%

JAJapanese

2.7%8100%

ESSpanish

2.7%888%

TWTraditional Chinese

2.0%650%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

1.7%580%

CZCzech

1.3%4100%

FRFrench

1.0%367%

ITItalian

0.7%2100%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 54

65%positive

18.0% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 151

83%positive

50.3% of reviews

10-100h 93

74%positive

31.0% of reviews

100h+ 2

100%positive

0.7% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 231Negative 69

1017651250

25·0825·0925·1025·1125·1226·0126·0226·0326·04

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

300 reviews

Free product

2/ 300

0.7% of total100% positive

Early access

0/ 300

0.0% of total— no data

Key activation

22/ 300

7.3% of total95% positive

Steam Deck

3/ 300

1.0% of total100% positive

Steam purchase

276/ 300

92.0% of total77% positive

Recommended

231/ 300

77.0% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

69/ 300

23.0% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

300/ 300

100.0% of total77% positive

286 reviews · 75% positive

Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.