How much revenue did USC: Counterforce make?

$33k–$89k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did USC: Counterforce sell?

Q: How many copies did USC: Counterforce sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 242 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $33k–$89k after Steam's cut $60k–$136k before Steam's cut; from 242 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 USC: Counterforce and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including USC: Counterforce's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–77k

best case 167k (Axis & Allies 1942 Online)

Games like USC: Counterforce

A typical game among these

≈ 23k–77k copies

≈ $74k–$519k after Steam's cut

from ~913 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Shooter (3 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: Axis & Allies 1942 Online at ≈ 127k–206k copies, ≈ $698k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 210 reviews in their first month; the range was 39 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (3 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + Board Game, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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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