How much revenue did Firefighting Simulator - The Squad make?

$905k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Firefighting Simulator - The Squad sell?

Q: How many copies did Firefighting Simulator - The Squad sell?

132k to 214k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 132k–214k; $905k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before the cut; from 5k 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 Firefighting Simulator - The Squad out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Firefighting Simulator - The Squad's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.9M–7.1M

best case 24.5M (Arma 3)

Games like Firefighting Simulator - The Squad

The middle of these games

≈ 4.9M–7.1M copies

≈ $55.2M–$59.4M after Steam's cut

from ~133k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Realistic (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Arma 3 at ≈ 18.6M–30.3M copies, ≈ $153.8M–$413.4M 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 21k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10k to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Realistic (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, 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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FIFA 22 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	120k reviews Very Positive	Football (Soccer)Sports
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Insurgency: Sandstorm 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $33.4M–$89.7M after Steam's cut $60.7M–$138.0M before the cut	$29.99	133k reviews Very Positive	FPSRealistic
Insurgency 2014	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.8M–$77.4M after Steam's cut $52.3M–$119.0M before the cut	$14.99	125k reviews Very Positive	FPSRealistic