How much revenue did Desert Special Forces make?

$6k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Desert Special Forces sell?

Q: How many copies did Desert Special Forces sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before the cut; from 41 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 Desert Special Forces out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Desert Special Forces's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–7k

best case 17k (GOAL! The Club Manager)

Games like Desert Special Forces

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–7k copies

≈ $5k–$62k after Steam's cut

from ~81 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: GOAL! The Club Manager at ≈ 13k–21k copies, ≈ $106k–$286k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 18 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 185.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sports (8 of 8) and Grand Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports + Football (Soccer), priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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Magatch 2025	Est. copies ≈ 868–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut	$9.99	35 reviews Mixed	CasualSports
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