How much revenue did DOOM 3 make?

$2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DOOM 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did DOOM 3 sell?

794k to 1.3M copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 794k–1.3M; $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.0M before Steam's cut; from 13k 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 DOOM 3 and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including DOOM 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.3M–17.8M

best case 34.9M (Apex Legends™)

Games like DOOM 3

A typical game among these

≈ 10.3M–17.8M copies

≈ $87.8M–$156.0M after Steam's cut

from ~285k 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: Apex Legends™ at ≈ 26.6M–43.2M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 76k reviews in their first month; the range was 42k to 143k.

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 Battle Royale + FPS.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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
Apex Legends™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 26.6M–43.2M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.1M reviews Mixed	Free to PlayBattle Royale
Ready or Not 2023	Est. copies ≈ 8.6M–14.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $118.4M–$318.4M after Steam's cut $215.3M–$489.8M before Steam's cut	$49.99	347k reviews Mostly Positive	TacticalRealistic
DOOM Eternal 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.4M–8.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $44.5M–$119.7M after Steam's cut $80.9M–$184.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	218k reviews Very Positive	FPSAction
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