How much revenue did Terminal Conflict make?

$15k–$40k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Terminal Conflict sell?

Q: How many copies did Terminal Conflict sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 72 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$61k before Steam's cut; from 72 reviews (Mixed)

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 Terminal Conflict and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Terminal Conflict's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–92k

best case 6.7M (Papers, Please)

Games like Terminal Conflict

A typical game among these

≈ 40k–92k copies

≈ $107k–$426k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Papers, Please at ≈ 5.1M–8.3M copies, ≈ $14.0M–$37.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Cold War (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Point & Click + Pixel Graphics + Dystopian ; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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).

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