How much revenue did Operation: Pinkeye make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Operation: Pinkeye sell?

Q: How many copies did Operation: Pinkeye sell?

620 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 620–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 25 reviews (Mostly 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 Operation: Pinkeye and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Operation: Pinkeye's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.1M

best case 21.7M (Counter-Strike)

Games like Operation: Pinkeye

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–2.1M copies

≈ $5.1M–$9.0M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: Counter-Strike at ≈ 16.6M–26.9M copies, ≈ $45.5M–$122.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Team-Based + Competitive + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2000 to 2023, and none of them 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Counter-Strike 2000	Est. copies ≈ 16.6M–26.9M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $45.5M–$122.3M after Steam's cut $82.7M–$188.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	262k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionFPS
DOOM + DOOM II 2007	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–3.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.6M after Steam's cut $9.2M–$20.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	29k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSClassic
Quake 2007	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.7M after Steam's cut $5.2M–$11.8M before Steam's cut	$9.99	16k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSClassic
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch 2004	Est. copies ≈ 972k–1.6M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	15k reviews Very Positive	ActionFPS
Half-Life: Blue Shift 2001	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.8M–$5.0M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.6M before Steam's cut	$4.99	21k reviews Very Positive	FPSAction
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2023	Est. copies ≈ 454k–738k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.4M before Steam's cut	$21.99	18k reviews Very Positive	Boomer ShooterFPS
DUSK 2018	Est. copies ≈ 778k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut $7.8M–$17.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	26k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Boomer ShooterFPS
Serious Sam 3: BFE 2011	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–3.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.0M–$40.3M after Steam's cut $27.2M–$62.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	29k reviews Very Positive	FPSAction