How much revenue did G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout make?

G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout sell?

Q: How many copies did G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 138 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–6k; from 138 reviews (Mixed)

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 G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33.0M–80.3M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout

A typical game among these

≈ 33.0M–80.3M copies

≈ $399.1M–$697.1M after Steam's cut

from ~854k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Shooter (4 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (4 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.7M–80.7M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	786k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Fallout 4 2015	Est. copies ≈ 21.0M–34.1M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut $209.4M–$476.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	429k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldPost-apocalyptic
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