How much revenue did Recon Control make?

$10k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Recon Control sell?

Q: How many copies did Recon Control sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 144 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$41k before the cut; from 144 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 Recon Control out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Recon Control's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 464k–851k

best case 4.9M (XCOM: Enemy Unknown)

Games like Recon Control

The middle of these games

≈ 464k–851k copies

≈ $4.9M–$10.4M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: XCOM: Enemy Unknown at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.0M 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 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6k to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8) and Turn-Based (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Tactical, priced around $42. The breakout hits carry Aliens + Base-Building + Grand Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, 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 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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XCOM: Enemy Unknown 2012	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.0M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.3M–$41.0M after Steam's cut $27.7M–$63.1M before the cut	$14.99	59k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based StrategyTactical
Gloomhaven 2021	Est. copies ≈ 399k–649k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.9M before the cut	$34.99	16k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpDark Fantasy
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