How much revenue did Gears 5 make?

$5.9M–$16.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gears 5 sell?

Q: How many copies did Gears 5 sell?

721k to 1.2M copies, based on its 25k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 721k–1.2M; $5.9M–$16.0M after Steam's cut $10.8M–$24.6M before the cut; from 25k reviews (Mostly 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 Gears 5 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gears 5's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.9M–42.3M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Gears 5

The middle of these games

≈ 7.9M–42.3M copies

≈ $98.2M–$283.6M after Steam's cut

from ~323k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (5 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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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