How much revenue did Project Gunship make?

$89k–$239k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Project Gunship sell?

Q: How many copies did Project Gunship sell?

22k to 35k copies, based on its 868 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22k–35k; $89k–$239k after Steam's cut $161k–$367k before Steam's cut; from 868 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 Project Gunship and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Project Gunship's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11.6M–18.9M

best case 99.7M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Project Gunship

A typical game among these

≈ 11.6M–18.9M copies

≈ $113.4M–$265.0M after Steam's cut

from ~220k 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 Shooter (4 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: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 76.0M–123.4M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (4 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical. The breakout hits carry PvP + e-sports + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2004 to 2020, 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
Hearts of Iron IV 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.1M–24.6M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $207.7M–$558.4M after Steam's cut $377.6M–$859.1M before Steam's cut	$49.99	363k reviews Very Positive	StrategyWorld War II
Arma 3 2013	Est. copies ≈ 18.7M–30.4M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $154.1M–$414.3M after Steam's cut $280.2M–$637.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	296k reviews Very Positive	MilitaryAction
Counter-Strike: Source 2004	Est. copies ≈ 12.2M–19.9M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $33.6M–$90.3M after Steam's cut $61.0M–$138.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	193k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ShooterFPS
Squad 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6.0M–9.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $66.5M–$178.7M after Steam's cut $120.8M–$274.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	244k reviews Very Positive	MilitaryRealistic
Mount & Blade: Warband 2010	Est. copies ≈ 10.9M–17.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $59.8M–$160.9M after Steam's cut $108.8M–$247.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	172k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MedievalRPG
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 76.0M–123.4M 7.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.6M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
Stellaris 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut $204.7M–$465.6M before Steam's cut	$49.99	197k reviews Very Positive	SpaceGrand Strategy
War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.7M–80.7M 3.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	786k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation