How many copies did Apex Legends™ sell?

26.6M to 43.2M copies, based on its 1.1M Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Apex Legends™ make?

Apex Legends™ is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Apex Legends™?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 26.6M–43.2M; from 1.1M reviews (Mixed)

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 Apex Legends™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Apex Legends™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.7M–10.2M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Apex Legends™

A typical game among these

≈ 4.7M–10.2M copies

≈ $122.3M after Steam's cut

from ~202k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 55k reviews in their first month; the range was 115 to 144k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Battle Royale (6 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Shooter + Third-Person Shooter + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 43 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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Totally Accurate Battlegrounds 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	88k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerPhysics
Crab Game 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	151k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorMultiplayer
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Stumble Guys 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	139k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayBattle Royale
Z1 Battle Royale 2018	Est. copies ≈ 6.2M–10.0M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	202k reviews Mixed	SurvivalMassively Multiplayer
Hunt: Showdown 1896 2019	Est. copies ≈ 8.0M–13.1M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $66.3M–$178.3M after Steam's cut $120.6M–$274.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	279k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldExtraction Shooter