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How many copies did Frontline Crisis sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 10k–16k
$16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$66k before the cut
from 393 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 Frontline Crisis out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Frontline Crisis's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–12k
best case 69k (Taur)
Games like Frontline Crisis

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–12k copies

≈ $16k–$35k after Steam's cut

from ~248 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Taur at ≈ 52k–85k copies, ≈ $359k–$965k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 122 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 537.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on RTS (5 of 8) and Tower Defense (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with RTS, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + RTS + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 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 52 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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