How much revenue did 4th Generation Warfare make?

$33k–$89k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 4th Generation Warfare sell?

Q: How many copies did 4th Generation Warfare sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 161 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $33k–$89k after Steam's cut $60k–$136k before the cut; from 161 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 4th Generation Warfare out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 4th Generation Warfare's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 121k–423k

best case 608k (Age of History 3)

Games like 4th Generation Warfare

The middle of these games

≈ 121k–423k copies

≈ $1.5M–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Age of History 3 at ≈ 463k–752k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RTS (7 of 8) and Grand Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + Grand Strategy, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2026, 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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