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How many copies did REAVER sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 16k–26k
$62k–$168k after Steam's cut $113k–$258k before Steam's cut
from 653 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 REAVER and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including REAVER's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 982k–2.1M
best case 8.0M (ULTRAKILL)
Games like REAVER

A typical game among these

≈ 982k–2.1M copies

≈ $3.9M–$6.6M 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: ULTRAKILL at ≈ 6.1M–9.9M copies, ≈ $50.2M–$134.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Fast-Paced (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Boomer Shooter + Fast-Paced, priced around $30.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2007 to 2022, 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).

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SteamSpy 200k–500k
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FPSDifficult
Splitgate
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5.3x vs typical
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Free to PlayFPS
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FPSArena Shooter
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12x vs typical
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$29.99
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Boomer ShooterFast-Paced
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Est. copies
≈ 1.0M–1.7M
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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$9.99
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FPSClassic
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Est. copies
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Boomer ShooterFPS
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Est. copies
≈ 972k–1.6M
1.9x vs typical
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Est. revenue
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$9.99
39k reviews
Mostly Positive
Arena ShooterHero Shooter

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