How much revenue did Sector's Edge make?

Sector's Edge is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Sector's Edge sell?

Q: How many copies did Sector's Edge sell?

80k to 130k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 80k–130k; from 3k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Sector's Edge and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sector's Edge's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–9.3M

best case 99.7M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Sector's Edge

A typical game among these

≈ 3.0M–9.3M copies

≈ $31.0M–$156.2M after Steam's cut

from ~187k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 76.0M–123.4M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 89k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2026, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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