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How many copies did Command: Modern Operations sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 47k–77k
$1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut
from 2k 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 Command: Modern Operations and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Command: Modern Operations's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 892k–4.0M
best case 7.9M (Squad)
Games like Command: Modern Operations

A typical game among these

≈ 892k–4.0M copies

≈ $13.3M–$89.3M after Steam's cut

from ~34k 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: Squad at ≈ 6.0M–9.8M copies, ≈ $66.5M–$178.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 57k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Military (6 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Military + Realistic, priced around $40.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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Est. copies
≈ 8.5M–13.8M
4.0x vs typical
SteamSpy 5M–10M
Est. revenue
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$49.99
134k reviews
Very Positive
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2017
Est. copies
≈ 2.0M–3.3M
1.8x vs typical
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Est. revenue
$14.0M–$37.7M after Steam's cut $25.5M–$58.0M before Steam's cut
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2020
Est. copies
≈ 6.0M–9.8M
7.2x vs typical
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
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$39.99
244k reviews
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Holdfast: Nations At War
2020
Est. copies
≈ 734k–1.2M
SteamSpy 500k–1M
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≈ 1.8M–3.0M
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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$59.99
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Est. copies
≈ 1.1M–1.8M
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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SteamSpy 200k–500k
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$5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut $9.6M–$21.9M before Steam's cut
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17k reviews
Very Positive
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