How much revenue did EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 25 make?

EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 25 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 25 sell?

Q: How many copies did EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 25 sell?

127k to 207k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 127k–207k; from 5k reviews (Mixed)

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 EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 25 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 25's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 271k–829k

best case 1.2M (Football Manager 2020)

Games like EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 25

A typical game among these

≈ 271k–829k copies

from ~12k 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: Football Manager 2020 at ≈ 912k–1.5M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Football (American) (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Sports.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 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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PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2019 2018	Est. copies ≈ 180k–293k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	6k reviews Mixed	SportsFootball (Soccer)
Football Manager 2021 2020	Est. copies ≈ 591k–961k 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	SportsSimulation
Madden NFL 24 2023	Est. copies ≈ 215k–349k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	9k reviews Mixed	SportsSimulation
Football Manager 2017 2016	Est. copies ≈ 459k–746k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Mixed	SportsFootball (Soccer)
Football Manager 2020 2019	Est. copies ≈ 912k–1.5M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	32k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2018 2017	Est. copies ≈ 142k–231k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Mixed	SportsFootball (Soccer)
eFootball PES 2020 2019	Est. copies ≈ 752k–1.2M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	26k reviews Mostly Positive	SportsFootball (Soccer)
Football Manager 2019 2018	Est. copies ≈ 379k–617k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports