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How many copies did STAR WARS™ Battlefront sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 146k–238k
$805k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before Steam's cut
from 6k reviews (Mostly 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 STAR WARS™ Battlefront and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including STAR WARS™ Battlefront's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11.0M–15.8M
best case 37.9M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)
Games like STAR WARS™ Battlefront

A typical game among these

≈ 11.0M–15.8M copies

≈ $110.4M–$207.8M after Steam's cut

from ~333k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.9M–46.9M copies, ≈ $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut. 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 76k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 251k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Co-op (5 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Battle Royale + FPS, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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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