How many copies did Team Fortress 2 sell?

79.1M to 128.6M copies, based on its 1.3M Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Team Fortress 2 make?

Team Fortress 2 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Team Fortress 2?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 79.1M–128.6M; from 1.3M 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 Team Fortress 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Team Fortress 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–6.2M

best case 34.9M (Apex Legends™)

Games like Team Fortress 2

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–6.2M copies

≈ $5.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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: Apex Legends™ at ≈ 26.6M–43.2M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 55 to 76k.

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 Battle Royale + FPS.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2022, 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 61 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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Quake Champions 2022	Est. copies ≈ 972k–1.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	39k reviews Mostly Positive	Arena ShooterHero Shooter
Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 468k–760k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.9M–$10.4M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	19k reviews Mostly Positive	MultiplayerThird-Person Shooter
Apex Legends™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 26.6M–43.2M 28x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.1M reviews Mixed	Free to PlayBattle Royale
Century: Age of Ashes 2021	Est. copies ≈ 456k–741k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	18k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayDragons
Paladins® 2018	Est. copies ≈ 10.5M–17.1M 8.9x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	345k reviews Very Positive	Hero ShooterFree to Play
CRSED: Cuisine Royale 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	39k reviews Mostly Positive	Battle RoyaleFree to Play
POLYGON 2020	Est. copies ≈ 918k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	37k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayFPS
Dirty Bomb® 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	57k reviews Very Positive	Hero ShooterFree to Play