How much revenue did 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far make?

$142k–$380k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far sell?

Q: How many copies did 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far sell?

26k to 42k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26k–42k; $142k–$380k after Steam's cut $257k–$585k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 50k–175k

best case 1.3M (Company of Heroes 3)

Games like 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far

A typical game among these

≈ 50k–175k copies

≈ $289k–$4.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Company of Heroes 3 at ≈ 1.0M–1.6M copies, ≈ $16.5M–$44.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 109 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share RTS (7 of 8) and Action RTS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + RTS, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, 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 43 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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