How much revenue did UFO: Aftermath make?

$21k–$57k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did UFO: Aftermath sell?

Q: How many copies did UFO: Aftermath sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 343 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $38k–$87k before the cut; from 343 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 UFO: Aftermath out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including UFO: Aftermath's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 599k–1.5M

best case 4.9M (XCOM: Enemy Unknown)

Games like UFO: Aftermath

The middle of these games

≈ 599k–1.5M copies

≈ $3.7M–$17.8M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: XCOM: Enemy Unknown at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.0M after Steam's cut.

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 708 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (7 of 8) and Aliens (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Tactical, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, 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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