How many copies did Hired Ops sell?

401k to 651k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Hired Ops make?

Hired Ops is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Hired Ops?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 401k–651k; from 16k 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 Hired Ops and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hired Ops's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–10.8M

best case 25.5M (Call of Duty®)

Games like Hired Ops

A typical game among these

≈ 2.1M–10.8M copies

≈ $39.8M–$218.4M after Steam's cut

from ~161k 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: Call of Duty® at ≈ 19.4M–31.5M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 57k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 165k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 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).

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