How much revenue did F.E.A.R. make?

$3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did F.E.A.R. sell?

Q: How many copies did F.E.A.R. sell?

1.2M to 2.0M copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–2.0M; $3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.0M before the cut; from 20k 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 F.E.A.R. out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including F.E.A.R.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30.6M–90.6M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like F.E.A.R.

The middle of these games

≈ 30.6M–90.6M copies

≈ $176.9M–$314.3M after Steam's cut

from ~1.0M reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (5 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2020, 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).

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