How much revenue did Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3 make?

Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3 sell?

1.0M to 1.6M copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.0M–1.6M; from 16k 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 Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 351k–1.0M

best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)

Games like Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3

A typical game among these

≈ 351k–1.0M copies

≈ $2.5M–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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 Building (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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

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 743 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (3 of 8) and Level Editor (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Music + Great Soundtrack + Precision Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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
Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 36.2M–58.9M 56x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut $90.4M–$205.7M before Steam's cut	$4.99	647k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic
Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut $16.8M–$38.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	54k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerParty
Poly Bridge 2016	Est. copies ≈ 788k–1.3M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$9.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	19k reviews Very Positive	BuildingSimulation
Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™ 2009	Est. copies ≈ 592k–963k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	9k reviews Very Positive	Family FriendlyLevel Editor
Biped 2020	Est. copies ≈ 287k–466k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Character CustomizationEmotional
Golf It! 2023	Est. copies ≈ 772k–1.3M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$7.9M before Steam's cut	$8.99	31k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerMini Golf
Poly Bridge 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 204k–332k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $842k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BuildingSimulation
Parkitect 2018	Est. copies ≈ 248k–403k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.5M after Steam's cut $3.7M–$8.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	8k reviews Very Positive	RelaxingLevel Editor