How much revenue did Far Cry® 5 make?

$95.1M–$255.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Far Cry® 5 sell?

Q: How many copies did Far Cry® 5 sell?

5.8M to 9.4M copies, based on its 190k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.8M–9.4M; $95.1M–$255.6M after Steam's cut $172.9M–$393.3M before Steam's cut; from 190k 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 Far Cry® 5 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Far Cry® 5's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–8.0M

best case 10.5M (Sons Of The Forest)

Games like Far Cry® 5

A typical game among these

≈ 2.9M–8.0M copies

≈ $31.5M–$90.3M after Steam's cut

from ~120k 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: Sons Of The Forest at ≈ 8.0M–12.9M copies, ≈ $65.7M–$176.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 82k reviews in their first month; the range was 19k to 178k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (6 of 8) and Co-op (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World, priced around $30.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 43 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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