How much revenue did Team Fortress Classic make?

$805k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Team Fortress Classic sell?

Q: How many copies did Team Fortress Classic sell?

587k to 953k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 587k–953k; $805k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before the cut; from 9k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Team Fortress Classic out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Team Fortress Classic's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19.3M–100.3M

best case 99.2M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Team Fortress Classic

The middle of these games

≈ 19.3M–100.3M copies

≈ $86.2M–$91.0M after Steam's cut

from ~755k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 75.6M–122.8M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (4 of 4) and Shooter (4 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
The era: The games you compared span 2000 to 2016, 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 52 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
DOOM 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.7M–$136.2M after Steam's cut $92.1M–$209.6M before the cut	$19.99	222k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSGore
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 75.6M–122.8M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.5M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
Team Fortress 2 2007	Est. copies ≈ 79.0M–128.3M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.2M reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayHero Shooter
Counter-Strike 2000	Est. copies ≈ 16.5M–26.9M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $45.4M–$122.1M after Steam's cut $82.6M–$187.9M before the cut	$9.99	262k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionFPS