How much revenue did Combat Mission Shock Force 2 make?

$353k–$949k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Combat Mission Shock Force 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Combat Mission Shock Force 2 sell?

21k to 35k copies, based on its 863 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–35k; $353k–$949k after Steam's cut $642k–$1.5M before the cut; from 863 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 Combat Mission Shock Force 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Combat Mission Shock Force 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 381k–581k

best case 1.4M (Wargame: Red Dragon)

Games like Combat Mission Shock Force 2

The middle of these games

≈ 381k–581k copies

≈ $3.6M–$6.2M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Wargame: Red Dragon at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $9.1M–$24.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RTS (8 of 8) and Wargame (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RTS + Military, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 2 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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