How much revenue did Fire Commander make?

$38k–$103k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fire Commander sell?

Q: How many copies did Fire Commander sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 374 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $38k–$103k after Steam's cut $70k–$158k before the cut; from 374 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 Fire Commander out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fire Commander's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 420k–1.6M

best case 1.9M (Arma Reforger)

Games like Fire Commander

The middle of these games

≈ 420k–1.6M copies

≈ $4.5M–$19.8M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: Arma Reforger at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $15.5M–$41.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 781 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RTS (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Military + Simulation, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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