How much revenue did Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon make?

$5.2M–$13.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon sell?

Q: How many copies did Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon sell?

1.3M 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: ≈ 1.3M–2.0M; $5.2M–$13.9M after Steam's cut $9.4M–$21.4M before Steam's cut; from 20k 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 Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–28k

best case 1.5M (Hello Neighbor)

Games like Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–28k copies

≈ $6k–$137k after Steam's cut

from ~728 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hello Neighbor at ≈ 1.1M–1.9M copies, ≈ $9.4M–$25.4M 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 254 reviews in their first month; the range was 38 to 288.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Sandbox, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Action-Adventure + Survival Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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