How much revenue did Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War make?

$75k–$203k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War sell?

Q: How many copies did Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 245 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $75k–$203k after Steam's cut $137k–$312k before Steam's cut; from 245 reviews (Mostly 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 Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 234k–613k

best case 918k (STAR WARS™: Squadrons)

Games like Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War

A typical game among these

≈ 234k–613k copies

≈ $1.8M–$7.1M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: STAR WARS™: Squadrons at ≈ 699k–1.1M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 761 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (8 of 8) and Flight (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Space, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2021, 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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