How much revenue did Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition make?

Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition sell?

268k to 435k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 268k–435k; from 4k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.2M–7.5M

best case 8.0M (ULTRAKILL)

Games like Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 4.2M–7.5M copies

≈ $26.8M–$70.6M after Steam's cut

from ~157k 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 3 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: ULTRAKILL at ≈ 6.1M–9.9M copies, ≈ $50.2M–$134.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arena Shooter (2 of 3) and Fast-Paced (2 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Boomer Shooter + Fast-Paced, priced around $30.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Quake Champions 2022	Est. copies ≈ 972k–1.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	39k reviews Mostly Positive	Arena ShooterHero Shooter
World of Warships 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5.4M–8.8M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	157k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayNaval Combat
ULTRAKILL 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6.1M–9.9M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.2M–$134.8M after Steam's cut $91.2M–$207.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	245k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Boomer ShooterFast-Paced