How much revenue did Quake Champions make?

$2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Quake Champions sell?

Q: How many copies did Quake Champions sell?

972k to 1.6M copies, based on its 39k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 972k–1.6M; $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.0M before Steam's cut; from 39k 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 Quake Champions and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Quake Champions's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–74k

best case 109k (3D Aim Trainer)

Games like Quake Champions

A typical game among these

≈ 19k–74k copies

≈ $104k–$232k after Steam's cut

from ~931 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 3D Aim Trainer at ≈ 83k–135k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 303 reviews in their first month; the range was 110 to 802.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (7 of 8) and Arena Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with e-sports + FPS.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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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