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How many copies did Gray Zone sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–3k
$10k–$27k after Steam's cut $19k–$42k before the cut
from 75 reviews (Mixed)

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

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 472k–1.1M
best case 1.5M (Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Soulstorm)
Games like Gray Zone

The middle of these games

≈ 472k–1.1M copies

≈ $5.4M–$6.0M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Soulstorm at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on RTS (8 of 8) and Sci-fi (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Warhammer 40K + RTS.
The era
The games you compared span 2007 to 2022, and none of them 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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