How much revenue did Starship Troopers: Extermination make?

$6.8M–$18.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Starship Troopers: Extermination sell?

Q: How many copies did Starship Troopers: Extermination sell?

829k to 1.3M copies, based on its 33k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 829k–1.3M; $6.8M–$18.4M after Steam's cut $12.4M–$28.3M before Steam's cut; from 33k 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 Starship Troopers: Extermination and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Starship Troopers: Extermination's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.9M–12.1M

best case 34.9M (Apex Legends™)

Games like Starship Troopers: Extermination

A typical game among these

≈ 9.9M–12.1M copies

≈ $92.6M–$119.7M after Steam's cut

from ~263k 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: Apex Legends™ at ≈ 26.6M–43.2M 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 76k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 326k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (6 of 8) and FPS (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Open World, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2004 to 2020, 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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Half-Life 2 2004	Est. copies ≈ 17.7M–28.8M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut $88.4M–$201.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	280k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSAction
DOOM 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.7M–$136.4M after Steam's cut $92.3M–$209.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	222k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSGore
Cyberpunk 2077 2020	Est. copies ≈ 24.4M–39.6M 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $402.0M–$1080.8M after Steam's cut $730.9M–$1662.7M before Steam's cut	$59.99	983k reviews Very Positive	CyberpunkOpen World
Halo: The Master Chief Collection 2019	Est. copies ≈ 7.6M–12.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $83.3M–$223.9M after Steam's cut $151.4M–$344.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	263k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackFPS
Titanfall® 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 7.1M–11.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $58.7M–$158.0M after Steam's cut $106.8M–$243.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	287k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSMechs
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–48.0M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut $147.5M–$335.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	467k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Apex Legends™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 26.6M–43.2M 4.1x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.1M reviews Mixed	Free to PlayBattle Royale
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