How much revenue did PlanetSide Arena make?

PlanetSide Arena is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did PlanetSide Arena sell?

Q: How many copies did PlanetSide Arena sell?

54k to 88k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 54k–88k; from 2k 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 PlanetSide Arena and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PlanetSide Arena's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 36k–2.3M

best case 34.9M (Apex Legends™)

Games like PlanetSide Arena

A typical game among these

≈ 36k–2.3M copies

≈ $267k after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Apex Legends™ at ≈ 26.6M–43.2M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 20 to 77k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (5 of 8) and Battle Royale (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + FPS.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 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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Crucible Beta 2020	Est. copies ≈ 264k–428k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayAction
The Cycle: Frontier 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 5.2x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	45k reviews Mixed	Extraction ShooterSurvival
Royale Island Showdown 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3k–6k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	138 reviews Very Positive	ActionBattle Royale
Master Arena 2022	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	209 reviews Mixed	FPSArena Shooter
Crab Game 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M 18x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	151k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorMultiplayer
Apex Legends™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 26.6M–43.2M 124x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.1M reviews Mixed	Free to PlayBattle Royale
DEPLOYMENT 2018	Est. copies ≈ 35k–57k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $145k–$389k after Steam's cut $263k–$599k before Steam's cut	$14.99	1k reviews Very Positive	ActionRacing
Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale 2018	Est. copies ≈ 201k–327k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Mixed	Early AccessBattle Royale