How much revenue did The Bureau: XCOM Declassified make?

$4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Bureau: XCOM Declassified sell?

Q: How many copies did The Bureau: XCOM Declassified sell?

764k to 1.2M copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 764k–1.2M; $4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's cut $7.6M–$17.4M before Steam's cut; from 12k 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 The Bureau: XCOM Declassified and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Bureau: XCOM Declassified's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.3M–6.1M

best case 34.9M (Apex Legends™)

Games like The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

A typical game among these

≈ 4.3M–6.1M copies

≈ $28.2M–$50.4M after Steam's cut

from ~100k 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: Apex Legends™ at ≈ 26.6M–43.2M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (5 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + FPS. The breakout hits carry Battle Royale + PvP + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
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 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
STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $27.3M–$73.4M after Steam's cut $49.7M–$113.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	100k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerShooter