Sanctum
Short description
You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.
- Developer
- Coffee Stain Studios
- Publisher
- Coffee Stain Publishing
- Release
- Fri, Apr 15, 2011
- Price
- $9.99
- Reviews
- 1,975
- Positive
- 90%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 1M – 2M
- Concurrent players
- 4
- Genres
- Action, Casual, Indie, Strategy
- Features
- Multi-player, Co-op, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Partial Controller Support, Steam Leaderboards
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $8.65, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $9.99 launch price. That is 13% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
2 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 373 further data points reach back to Mar 1, 2011 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $0.99 on Mar 10, 2014.
Similar games that found an audience
Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Sanctum. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.
| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Orcs Must Die! 2 | Robot Entertainment 6 titles | 5 | − FPS + Online Co-Op | $14.99 | 12,940 | 92% | Mon, Jul 30, 2012 | $7.6m $3.4m – $65.1m |
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Sanctum 2 | Coffee Stain Studios 6 titles | 5 | − Indie + Sci-fi | $14.99 | 7,452 | 92% | Wed, May 15, 2013 | $4.4m $2m – $65.9m |
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X-Morph: Defense | EXOR Studios 4 titles | 5 | − FPS + Local Co-Op | $19.99 | 3,209 | 91% | Wed, Aug 30, 2017 | $3.4m $3.4m – $4.3m |
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Deathtrap | NeocoreGames 14 titles | 5 | − FPS + RPG | $19.99 | 1,851 | 85% | Wed, Feb 04, 2015 | $1.5m $665k – $9m |
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Iron Grip: Warlord | ISOTX first game | 5 | − Strategy + Steampunk | n/a | 249 | 88% | Fri, Dec 05, 2008 | n/a |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.