How much revenue did Combat Mission Shock Force 2 make?

$356k–$956k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Combat Mission Shock Force 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Combat Mission Shock Force 2 sell?

22k to 35k copies, based on its 869 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22k–35k; $356k–$956k after Steam's cut $646k–$1.5M before Steam's cut; from 869 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 Combat Mission Shock Force 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Combat Mission Shock Force 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 382k–588k

best case 1.5M (Wargame: Red Dragon)

Games like Combat Mission Shock Force 2

A typical game among these

≈ 382k–588k copies

≈ $3.6M–$6.2M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Wargame: Red Dragon at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $9.1M–$24.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share RTS (8 of 8) and Wargame (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + Military, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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