How much revenue did Team Fortress Classic make?

$806k–$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 955k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 587k–955k; $806k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 Team Fortress Classic and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Team Fortress Classic's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19.3M–100.7M

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

Games like Team Fortress Classic

A typical game among these

≈ 19.3M–100.7M copies

≈ $86.3M–$91.2M after Steam's cut

from ~757k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 76.0M–123.4M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (4 of 4) and Shooter (4 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games 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–$136.4M after Steam's cut $92.3M–$209.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	222k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSGore
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 76.0M–123.4M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.6M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
Team Fortress 2 2007	Est. copies ≈ 79.1M–128.6M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.3M reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayHero Shooter
Counter-Strike 2000	Est. copies ≈ 16.6M–26.9M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $45.5M–$122.3M after Steam's cut $82.7M–$188.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	262k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionFPS