How much revenue did REDSIDE episode 1 make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did REDSIDE episode 1 sell?

Q: How many copies did REDSIDE episode 1 sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 27 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 REDSIDE episode 1 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including REDSIDE episode 1's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 291k–392k

best case 521k (WARNO)

Games like REDSIDE episode 1

The middle of these games

≈ 291k–392k copies

≈ $2.6M–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Cold War (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: WARNO at ≈ 397k–645k copies, ≈ $4.4M–$11.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 964 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cold War (4 of 8) and Military (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + Military, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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