How many copies did Team Fortress 2 sell?

An estimated 64.5M to 104.8M copies, based on its 1.2M Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Team Fortress 2 make?

Team Fortress 2 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Team Fortress 2?

Estimated owners: ≈ 64.5M–104.8M; from 1.2M 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 Team Fortress 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Team Fortress 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–6.0M

best case 36.6M (Apex Legends™)

The Multiplayer lane

A big, proven genre: most sell around 1.4M copies.

A typical game

≈ 1.4M copies

≈ $7.5M after Steam's cut

from ~39k reviews

Best case

≈ 36.6M copies

Apex Legends™

from 1.1M reviews

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count; typical figures are medians per column, so they can come from different games.

The lane you'd be entering

Winners here lead with Free to Play + Battle Royale, priced around $30.
The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, a lane with a long track record.
A typical game here lands in Diamond ($1M+ before Steam's cut, est.). Tiers: Chris Zukowski's benchmark tiers.

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