How much revenue did DOOM make?

$50.7M–$136.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DOOM sell?

Q: How many copies did DOOM sell?

9.2M to 15.0M copies, based on its 222k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9.2M–15.0M; $50.7M–$136.4M after Steam's cut $92.3M–$209.9M before Steam's cut; from 222k 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 DOOM and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DOOM's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12.9M–32.6M

best case 88.0M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like DOOM

A typical game among these

≈ 12.9M–32.6M copies

≈ $177.0M–$323.2M after Steam's cut

from ~590k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is FPS (4 of 8), 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: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 67.0M–108.9M copies, ≈ $184.1M–$495.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 103k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (4 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10.
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
Red Dead Redemption 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 26.6M–43.2M 1.6x vs typical 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
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.8M–33.7M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut $207.5M–$472.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	683k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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
7 Days to Die 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9.9M–16.2M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $123.1M–$331.0M after Steam's cut $223.8M–$509.2M before Steam's cut	$44.99	401k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies
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
Left 4 Dead 2 2009	Est. copies ≈ 67.0M–108.9M 1.8x 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
Call of Duty® 2022	Est. copies ≈ 19.4M–31.5M SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	782k reviews Mixed	FPSMultiplayer
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