How much revenue did Battlefield™ 1 make?

$61.8M–$166.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Battlefield™ 1 sell?

Q: How many copies did Battlefield™ 1 sell?

5.6M to 9.1M copies, based on its 227k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.6M–9.1M; $61.8M–$166.1M after Steam's cut $112.3M–$255.6M before the cut; from 227k reviews (Very 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 Battlefield™ 1 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Battlefield™ 1's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38.9M–90.4M

best case 98.8M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Battlefield™ 1

The middle of these games

≈ 38.9M–90.4M copies

≈ $246.4M–$653.0M after Steam's cut

from ~994k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is FPS (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 75.3M–122.4M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (4 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2020, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Garry's Mod 2006	Est. copies ≈ 79.8M–129.6M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut $398.4M–$906.5M before the cut	$9.99	1.3M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxModdable
Left 4 Dead 2 2009	Est. copies ≈ 66.7M–108.4M SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $183.2M–$492.6M after Steam's cut $333.1M–$757.9M before the cut	$9.99	1.1M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesCo-op
Warframe 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.4M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	676k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayAction RPG
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.8M–50.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Red Dead Redemption 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 26.2M–42.6M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $432.5M–$1162.8M after Steam's cut $786.3M–$1788.9M before the cut	$59.99	910k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldStory Rich
Cyberpunk 2077 2020	Est. copies ≈ 24.2M–39.3M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $399.0M–$1072.8M after Steam's cut $725.5M–$1650.4M before the cut	$59.99	975k reviews Very Positive	CyberpunkOpen World
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 75.3M–122.4M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.5M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
PAYDAY 2 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.6M–69.2M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $117.1M–$314.7M after Steam's cut $212.8M–$484.2M before the cut	$9.99	674k reviews Very Positive	Co-opAction