How many copies did eFootball™ sell?

2.9M to 4.8M copies, based on its 119k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did eFootball™ make?

eFootball™ is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is eFootball™?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 2.9M–4.8M; from 119k 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 eFootball™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including eFootball™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 899k–2.2M

best case 4.9M (EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23)

Games like eFootball™

A typical game among these

≈ 899k–2.2M copies

≈ $1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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: EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23 at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 17k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sports (8 of 8) and e-sports (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Football (Soccer) + Sports.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
eFootball PES 2020 2019	Est. copies ≈ 752k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	26k reviews Mostly Positive	SportsFootball (Soccer)
NBA 2K19 2018	Est. copies ≈ 686k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	23k reviews Mostly Negative	SportsBasketball
eFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE 2020	Est. copies ≈ 945k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	38k reviews Mostly Positive	SportsFootball (Soccer)
Pro Soccer Online 2025	Est. copies ≈ 683k–1.1M SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $937k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	28k reviews Very Positive	SportsFootball (Soccer)
EA SPORTS FC™ 25 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.3M 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	107k reviews Mixed	SportsFootball (Soccer)
EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	150k reviews Mixed	Football (Soccer)Sports
EA SPORTS™ FIFA 21 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.2M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	56k reviews Mostly Positive	Football (American)Football (Soccer)
NBA 2K16 2015	Est. copies ≈ 360k–584k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Mixed	SportsBasketball