How much revenue did DIRECT CONTACT make?

$51k–$138k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DIRECT CONTACT sell?

Q: How many copies did DIRECT CONTACT sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 503 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $51k–$138k after Steam's cut $93k–$213k before Steam's cut; from 503 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 DIRECT CONTACT and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DIRECT CONTACT's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 67k–133k

best case 1.9M (Arma Reforger)

Games like DIRECT CONTACT

A typical game among these

≈ 67k–133k copies

≈ $335k–$801k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

Best case: Arma Reforger at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $15.9M–$42.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + FPS, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Heist + Co-op + FPS; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, and 1 of the 8 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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