How much revenue did Football Manager 2023 make?

Football Manager 2023 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Football Manager 2023 sell?

Q: How many copies did Football Manager 2023 sell?

492k to 799k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 492k–799k; from 20k 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 Football Manager 2023 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Football Manager 2023's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 851k–1.3M

best case 4.9M (EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23)

Games like Football Manager 2023

The middle of these games

≈ 851k–1.3M copies

from ~32k 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: EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23 at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Sports (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Football (Soccer) + Sports. The breakout hits carry Controller + Team-Based + e-sports; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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Football Manager 2024 2023	Est. copies ≈ 706k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	28k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
Football Manager 2021 2020	Est. copies ≈ 591k–961k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	SportsSimulation
NBA 2K23 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	51k reviews Mixed	Immersive SimBasketball
F1® 2020 2020	Est. copies ≈ 990k–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	40k reviews Very Positive	RacingSimulation
Football Manager 2020 2019	Est. copies ≈ 912k–1.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	32k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	150k reviews Mixed	Football (Soccer)Sports
Football Manager 2022 2021	Est. copies ≈ 533k–867k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	22k reviews Very Positive	SportsManagement