How much revenue did Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War make?

$75k–$203k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War sell?

Q: How many copies did Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 245 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $75k–$203k after Steam's cut $137k–$312k before the cut; from 245 reviews (Mostly 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 Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 234k–610k

best case 916k (STAR WARS™: Squadrons)

Games like Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War

The middle of these games

≈ 234k–610k copies

≈ $1.8M–$7.1M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: STAR WARS™: Squadrons at ≈ 698k–1.1M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M 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 761 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (8 of 8) and Flight (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Space, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2021, 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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