How much revenue did Sector's Edge make?

Sector's Edge is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Sector's Edge sell?

Q: How many copies did Sector's Edge sell?

80k to 130k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 80k–130k; from 3k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Sector's Edge out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sector's Edge's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–9.2M

best case 98.8M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Sector's Edge

The middle of these games

≈ 3.0M–9.2M copies

≈ $31.0M–$155.6M after Steam's cut

from ~186k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 75.3M–122.4M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 89k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2026, and 1 of your 8 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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