How much revenue did STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™ make?

$2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™ sell?

Q: How many copies did STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™ sell?

875k to 1.4M copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 875k–1.4M; $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$9.9M before Steam's cut; from 14k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 473k–2.5M

best case 4.5M (STAR WARS™ Battlefront II (Classic, 2005))

Games like STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

A typical game among these

≈ 473k–2.5M copies

≈ $6.1M–$10.0M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: STAR WARS™ Battlefront II (Classic, 2005) at ≈ 3.4M–5.6M copies, ≈ $9.4M–$25.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (6 of 8) and Classic (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shooter + Classic, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2020, 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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STAR WARS™ Battlefront II (Classic, 2005) 2009	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.6M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $9.4M–$25.4M after Steam's cut $17.1M–$39.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Very Positive	ActionMultiplayer
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