How much revenue did STAR WARS™ Battlefront make?

$799k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did STAR WARS™ Battlefront sell?

Q: How many copies did STAR WARS™ Battlefront sell?

145k to 236k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 145k–236k; $799k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before the cut; from 6k 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 STAR WARS™ Battlefront out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including STAR WARS™ Battlefront's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.9M–15.7M

best case 37.7M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)

Games like STAR WARS™ Battlefront

The middle of these games

≈ 10.9M–15.7M copies

≈ $109.9M–$157.3M after Steam's cut

from ~332k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.7M–46.7M copies, ≈ $315.9M–$849.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 76k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16k to 251k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (5 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + FPS, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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