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How many copies did Line of Sight: Vietnam sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 5k–8k
$13k–$36k after Steam's cut $25k–$56k before Steam's cut
from 118 reviews (Mostly 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 Line of Sight: Vietnam and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Line of Sight: Vietnam's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 85k–828k
best case 2.7M (Rising Storm 2: Vietnam)
Games like Line of Sight: Vietnam

A typical game among these

≈ 85k–828k copies

≈ $183k–$12.8M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rising Storm 2: Vietnam at ≈ 2.0M–3.3M copies, ≈ $14.0M–$37.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 16 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share FPS (6 of 8) and Military (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS + Wargame, priced around $25.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2011 to 2023, 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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