Genre StrategyReleased Sep 4, 2008
X-COM: UFO Defense
Developed by MicroProse Software, Inc · Published by 2K
$4.99
Estimated lifetime revenue
$132.2K
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$92.5K
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
43.3K
≈ 11 sales per review
Reviews
4,009
Overwhelmingly Positive95% positive
Playing now
27
13-day peak 35 · low 19
New reviews, last 13 days
+4
≈ 0 a day since Oct 1
History
Oct 1 – Oct 14
4.0K4.0K4.0K4.0K
Oct 1Oct 7Oct 14
Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.
How it compares
Strategy →Against the 120 most-reviewed Strategy games on Steam
Outearns 20% of them — in the bottom quarter of the group.
Median
$15.59M
114,721 reviews
Top 10% start at
$67.69M
This game
$132.2K
Fewest reviews of the group
The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.
About
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
- Developer
- MicroProse Software, Inc
- Publisher
- 2K
- Genre
- Strategy
- Released
- Sep 4, 2008
- Steam app ID
- 7760
- Data updated
- Oct 14, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.