How much revenue did UFO: Aftermath make?

$21k–$57k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did UFO: Aftermath sell?

Q: How many copies did UFO: Aftermath sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 343 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $38k–$87k before Steam's cut; from 343 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 UFO: Aftermath and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including UFO: Aftermath's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 607k–1.5M

best case 4.9M (XCOM: Enemy Unknown)

Games like UFO: Aftermath

A typical game among these

≈ 607k–1.5M copies

≈ $3.7M–$17.9M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: XCOM: Enemy Unknown at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 707 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (7 of 8) and Aliens (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Tactical, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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