How much revenue did Finnish Army Simulator make?

$115k–$308k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Finnish Army Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Finnish Army Simulator sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 561 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $115k–$308k after Steam's cut $209k–$475k before Steam's cut; from 561 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 Finnish Army Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Finnish Army Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–3.4M

best case 1.9M (Chivalry 2)

Games like Finnish Army Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–3.4M copies

≈ $5.0M–$21.8M after Steam's cut

from ~37k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is FPS (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Chivalry 2 at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $16.2M–$43.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (3 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Swordplay + Medieval, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, and 2 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Day of Defeat: Source 2010	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut $7.5M–$17.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	24k reviews Very Positive	FPSWorld War II
Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	37k reviews Very Positive	FPSMultiplayer
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $11.6M–$31.1M after Steam's cut $21.0M–$47.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	44k reviews Very Positive	WesternFPS
Chivalry 2 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.2M–$43.4M after Steam's cut $29.4M–$66.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	59k reviews Mostly Positive	SwordplayMedieval
Tactical Breach Wizards 2024	Est. copies ≈ 303k–492k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Turn-Based Tactics Puzzle
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes 2021	Est. copies ≈ 274k–445k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	11k reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterHorror
The Stanley Parable 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $11.9M–$32.1M after Steam's cut $21.7M–$49.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	46k reviews Very Positive	ComedyNarration
TUZAQ 2024	Est. copies ≈ 372–605 too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $512–$1k after Steam's cut $930–$2k before Steam's cut	$5.00	15 reviews Positive	Early AccessVisual Novel