How many copies did Warframe sell?

42.9M to 69.7M copies, based on its 678k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Warframe make?

Warframe is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Warframe?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 42.9M–69.7M; from 678k 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 Warframe and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Warframe's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–3k

best case 25.0M (Destiny 2)

Games like Warframe

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–3k copies

≈ $4k after Steam's cut

from ~76 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Open World (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Destiny 2 at ≈ 19.1M–31.0M copies. 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 61 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 12k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (3 of 8) and Character Customization (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Looter Shooter, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Open World + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 2 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 43 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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Unturned 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.4M–31.6M 7480x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	565k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlaySurvival
Bloodlines of Prima 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	78 reviews Mixed	ActionFree to Play
Alien Agent X 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut	$3.99	73 reviews Mixed	Early AccessFree to Play
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Cloaks and Capes 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	44 reviews Positive	Rogue-liteSide Scroller
Darkzone: Idle RPG 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	133 reviews Mixed	Early AccessIdler