How much revenue did FIREGROUND Modern War make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FIREGROUND Modern War sell?

Q: How many copies did FIREGROUND Modern War sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 92 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut; from 92 reviews (Mixed)

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 FIREGROUND Modern War out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FIREGROUND Modern War's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–357k

best case 7.9M (ULTRAKILL)

Games like FIREGROUND Modern War

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–357k copies

≈ $10k–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ULTRAKILL at ≈ 6.0M–9.7M copies, ≈ $49.4M–$132.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 29 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10 to 4k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arena Shooter (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Boomer Shooter + Fast-Paced, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 3 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 52 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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