How much revenue did Insurgency make?

$28.8M–$77.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Insurgency sell?

Q: How many copies did Insurgency sell?

7.0M to 11.3M copies, based on its 125k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7.0M–11.3M; $28.8M–$77.3M after Steam's cut $52.3M–$119.0M before Steam's cut; from 125k 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 Insurgency and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Insurgency's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.2M–44.0M

best case 820.1M (Counter-Strike 2)

Games like Insurgency

A typical game among these

≈ 5.2M–44.0M copies

≈ $61.7M–$122.6M after Steam's cut

from ~296k 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: Counter-Strike 2 at ≈ 624.8M–1015.3M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 100k reviews in their first month; the range was 47k to 165k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 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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Call of Duty® 2022	Est. copies ≈ 19.4M–31.5M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	782k reviews Mixed	FPSMultiplayer
Insurgency: Sandstorm 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $33.4M–$89.9M after Steam's cut $60.8M–$138.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	133k reviews Very Positive	FPSRealistic
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
Counter-Strike 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 624.8M–1015.3M 33x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	9.9M reviews Very Positive	FPSShooter
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm 2011	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.2M–$35.6M after Steam's cut $24.1M–$54.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	38k reviews Very Positive	World War IIRealistic
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 76.0M–123.4M 5.3x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.6M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
Squad 2020	Est. copies ≈ 6.0M–9.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $66.5M–$178.7M after Steam's cut $120.8M–$274.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	244k reviews Very Positive	MilitaryRealistic
Hell Let Loose 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $51.1M–$137.3M after Steam's cut $92.9M–$211.3M before Steam's cut	$49.99	150k reviews Very Positive	ShooterRealistic