How much revenue did Alien Shooter make?

$414k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alien Shooter sell?

Q: How many copies did Alien Shooter sell?

302k to 490k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 302k–490k; $414k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $752k–$1.7M before Steam's cut; from 5k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Alien Shooter and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alien Shooter's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12.1M–35.6M

best case 37.9M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)

Games like Alien Shooter

A typical game among these

≈ 12.1M–35.6M copies

≈ $181.0M–$462.7M after Steam's cut

from ~639k 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: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.9M–46.9M copies, ≈ $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 143k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 251k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (6 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Shooter, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Ready or Not 2023	Est. copies ≈ 8.6M–14.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $118.4M–$318.4M after Steam's cut $215.3M–$489.8M before Steam's cut	$49.99	347k reviews Mostly Positive	TacticalRealistic
Call of Duty® 2022	Est. copies ≈ 19.4M–31.5M SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	782k reviews Mixed	FPSMultiplayer
HELLDIVERS™ 2 2024	Est. copies ≈ 28.9M–46.9M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut $577.5M–$1313.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	1.2M reviews Mostly Positive	Online Co-OpPvE
Dying Light 2015	Est. copies ≈ 24.2M–39.3M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $166.4M–$447.4M after Steam's cut $302.5M–$688.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	496k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror
Deep Rock Galactic 2020	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut $141.5M–$321.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	380k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DwarfCo-op
Red Dead Redemption 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 26.6M–43.2M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $438.4M–$1178.6M after Steam's cut $797.0M–$1813.3M before Steam's cut	$59.99	923k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldStory Rich
Titanfall® 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 7.1M–11.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $58.7M–$158.0M after Steam's cut $106.8M–$243.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	287k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSMechs
Left 4 Dead 2 2009	Est. copies ≈ 67.0M–108.9M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $184.1M–$495.0M after Steam's cut $334.7M–$761.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	1.1M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesCo-op