How much revenue did Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War make?

$9.7M–$26.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War sell?

Q: How many copies did Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War sell?

586k to 952k copies, based on its 24k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 586k–952k; $9.7M–$26.0M after Steam's cut $17.6M–$40.0M before Steam's cut; from 24k 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 Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 142k–1.1M

best case 2.4M (UNO)

Games like Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War

A typical game among these

≈ 142k–1.1M copies

≈ $340k–$7.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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 Cold War (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: UNO at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cold War (4 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Tabletop, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.5M 9.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $30.1M–$81.0M after Steam's cut $54.8M–$124.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	43k reviews Very Positive	ActionFPS
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 2010	Est. copies ≈ 289k–469k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before Steam's cut	$39.99	5k reviews Very Positive	ActionFPS
NEKOPARA Vol. 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 535k–870k 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeSexual Content
UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
Wild Animal Racing 2016	Est. copies ≈ 113k–183k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $124k–$332k after Steam's cut $225k–$511k before Steam's cut	$3.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Sexual ContentCold War
Save Jesus 2016	Est. copies ≈ 94k–153k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $129k–$347k after Steam's cut $235k–$535k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Very Positive	MemesIlluminati
b 2017	Est. copies ≈ 145k–235k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Very Positive	AnimeStory Rich
Military Conflict: Vietnam 2022	Est. copies ≈ 58k–94k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $239k–$643k after Steam's cut $435k–$989k before Steam's cut	$14.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessFPS