How much revenue did Tannenberg make?

$1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tannenberg sell?

Q: How many copies did Tannenberg sell?

337k to 548k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 337k–548k; $1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.7M before Steam's cut; from 10k 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 Tannenberg and predicted how it would do from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Tannenberg's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–51.1M

best case 88.0M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Tannenberg

A typical game among these

≈ 2.4M–51.1M copies

≈ $56.0M–$339.6M after Steam's cut

from ~279k 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 5 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 67.0M–108.9M copies, ≈ $184.1M–$495.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (3 of 5) and FPS (3 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2019, 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 36 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
Left 4 Dead 2 2009	Est. copies ≈ 67.0M–108.9M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $184.1M–$495.0M after Steam's cut $334.7M–$761.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	1.1M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesCo-op
Hunt: Showdown 1896 2019	Est. copies ≈ 8.0M–13.1M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $66.3M–$178.3M after Steam's cut $120.6M–$274.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	279k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldExtraction Shooter
Verdun 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–3.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $30.4M–$81.6M after Steam's cut $55.2M–$125.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	38k reviews Very Positive	ShooterCo-op
UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
Dead by Daylight 2016	Est. copies ≈ 39.0M–63.3M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $214.2M–$575.9M after Steam's cut $389.4M–$886.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	937k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer