How much revenue did The Faction make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Faction sell?

Q: How many copies did The Faction sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 11 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 The Faction out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Faction's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 212k–1.7M

best case 11.2M (Ready or Not)

Games like The Faction

The middle of these games

≈ 212k–1.7M copies

≈ $3.6M–$18.8M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: Ready or Not at ≈ 8.5M–13.9M copies, ≈ $117.4M–$315.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 143k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Crime (7 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tactical + Realistic, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 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 38 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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Ready or Not 2023	Est. copies ≈ 8.5M–13.9M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $117.4M–$315.6M after Steam's cut $213.4M–$485.5M before the cut	$49.99	344k reviews Mostly Positive	TacticalRealistic
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