How many copies did Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege sell?

76.0M to 123.4M copies, based on its 1.6M Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege make?

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 76.0M–123.4M; from 1.6M reviews (Very 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 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 34.1M–58.3M

best case 56.0M (Rust)

Games like Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

A typical game among these

≈ 34.1M–58.3M copies

≈ $446.6M–$725.9M after Steam's cut

from ~929k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (2 of 4), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Rust at ≈ 42.7M–69.3M copies, ≈ $469.3M–$1261.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (2 of 4) and Open World (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2020, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.7M–80.7M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	786k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
Apex Legends™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 26.6M–43.2M SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.1M reviews Mixed	Free to PlayBattle Royale
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
Rust 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.3M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $469.3M–$1261.8M after Steam's cut $853.3M–$1941.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	1.4M reviews Very Positive	SurvivalCrafting