How much revenue did Carrier Command 2 make?

$769k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Carrier Command 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Carrier Command 2 sell?

93k to 151k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 93k–151k; $769k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before the cut; from 4k 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 Carrier Command 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Carrier Command 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 390k–2.9M

best case 3.5M (Total War: THREE KINGDOMS)

Games like Carrier Command 2

The middle of these games

≈ 390k–2.9M copies

≈ $4.5M–$22.7M 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: Total War: THREE KINGDOMS at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $29.6M–$79.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RTS (8 of 8) and War (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Historical + War, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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