How much revenue did The Cycle: Frontier make?

The Cycle: Frontier is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did The Cycle: Frontier sell?

Q: How many copies did The Cycle: Frontier sell?

1.1M to 1.8M copies, based on its 45k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.8M; from 45k 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 The Cycle: Frontier and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Cycle: Frontier's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–270k

best case 754k (The Day Before)

Games like The Cycle: Frontier

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–270k copies

≈ $9k–$44k after Steam's cut

from ~986 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: The Day Before at ≈ 575k–934k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 705 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Extraction Shooter (7 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Extraction Shooter.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, 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
Astrosphere 2024	Est. copies ≈ 347–564 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$12.99	14 reviews Mixed	Early AccessExploration
The Day Before 2023	Est. copies ≈ 575k–934k 24x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	23k reviews Overwhelmingly Negative	MultiplayerZombies
Skyward Extraction 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before Steam's cut	$9.99	73 reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeHorror
Shell Runner 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$41k before Steam's cut	$14.99	96 reviews Mixed	ActionExtraction Shooter
Eldegarde 2026	Est. copies ≈ 145k–236k 5.9x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	6k reviews Mixed	MultiplayerExtraction Shooter
Expedition Agartha 2023	Est. copies ≈ 44k–71k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Mixed	Extraction ShooterLoot
Blood Running 2025	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $24k–$64k after Steam's cut $43k–$99k before Steam's cut	$16.99	206 reviews Mixed	Extraction ShooterSurvival
ZERO Sievert 2024	Est. copies ≈ 387k–628k 16x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	16k reviews Very Positive	Extraction ShooterSurvival