How much revenue did Containment Initiative make?

$51k–$136k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Containment Initiative sell?

Q: How many copies did Containment Initiative sell?

18k to 30k copies, based on its 536 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–30k; $51k–$136k after Steam's cut $92k–$210k before Steam's cut; from 536 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 Containment Initiative and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Containment Initiative's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.3M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like Containment Initiative

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–2.3M copies

≈ $15.0M–$19.4M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 55 to 29k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (6 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Naval Combat + Co-op. The breakout hits carry Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
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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