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How many copies did Contractors Showdown : ExfilZone sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 89k–144k
$488k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $888k–$2.0M before Steam's cut
from 4k 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 Contractors Showdown : ExfilZone and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Contractors Showdown : ExfilZone's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–8k
best case 82k (POPULATION: ONE)
Games like Contractors Showdown : ExfilZone

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–8k copies

≈ $810–$60k after Steam's cut

from ~125 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: POPULATION: ONE at ≈ 62k–101k copies.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 103 reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 759.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Shooter (7 of 8) and VR (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Battle Royale + VR.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2018 to 2024, 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 38 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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