How many copies did Paladins® sell?

10.5M to 17.1M copies, based on its 345k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Paladins® make?

Paladins® is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Paladins®?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 10.5M–17.1M; from 345k 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 Paladins® and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Paladins®'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 761k–1.5M

best case 103.9M (Team Fortress 2)

Games like Paladins®

A typical game among these

≈ 761k–1.5M copies

≈ $5.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut

from ~38k 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: Team Fortress 2 at ≈ 79.1M–128.6M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

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 FPS + Shooter. The breakout hits carry FPS + Action + Class-Based; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 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 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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