How much revenue did Second Front make?

$159k–$429k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Second Front sell?

Q: How many copies did Second Front sell?

17k to 27k copies, based on its 668 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $159k–$429k after Steam's cut $290k–$659k before the cut; from 668 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 Second Front out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Second Front's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–4.5M

best case 9.4M (Company of Heroes 2)

Games like Second Front

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–4.5M copies

≈ $13.4M–$36.8M after Steam's cut

from ~42k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Company of Heroes 2 at ≈ 7.1M–11.6M copies, ≈ $39.3M–$105.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tactical (8 of 8) and Turn-Based (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with World War II + RTS, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, 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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