How much revenue did First Strike make?

$231k–$621k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did First Strike sell?

Q: How many copies did First Strike sell?

70k to 114k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 70k–114k; $231k–$621k after Steam's cut $420k–$955k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 First Strike and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including First Strike's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 517k–1.1M

best case 895k (Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic)

Games like First Strike

A typical game among these

≈ 517k–1.1M copies

≈ $4.0M–$12.4M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic at ≈ 682k–1.1M copies, ≈ $7.5M–$20.2M after Steam's cut.

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 6k to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share RTS (5 of 8) and Cold War (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + City Builder, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, and 3 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic 2024	Est. copies ≈ 682k–1.1M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.5M–$20.2M after Steam's cut $13.6M–$31.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	27k reviews Very Positive	StrategySimulation
Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3 2009	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	16k reviews Very Positive	Family FriendlyLevel Editor
Tropico 4 2011	Est. copies ≈ 807k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	13k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Simulation
WARNO 2024	Est. copies ≈ 401k–651k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.4M–$11.8M after Steam's cut $8.0M–$18.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	16k reviews Mostly Positive	WargameMilitary
Cold Waters 2017	Est. copies ≈ 163k–265k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.4M before Steam's cut	$39.99	5k reviews Very Positive	SimulationNaval Combat
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising 2009	Est. copies ≈ 372k–605k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	6k reviews Very Positive	Family FriendlyLevel Editor
Wargame: Red Dragon 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.1M–$24.5M after Steam's cut $16.6M–$37.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	20k reviews Very Positive	StrategyRTS
Age of History 3 2024	Est. copies ≈ 468k–761k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	19k reviews Very Positive	WargameStrategy