How much revenue did ESEA make?

ESEA is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did ESEA sell?

Q: How many copies did ESEA sell?

172k to 280k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 172k–280k; from 4k 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 ESEA out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ESEA's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18.2M–45.6M

best case 132.9M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like ESEA

The middle of these games

≈ 18.2M–45.6M copies

≈ $77.9M–$735.9M after Steam's cut

from ~930k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Mature (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: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.3M–164.6M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 291 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 326k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mature (4 of 8) and Animation & Modeling (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy 2015	Est. copies ≈ 101.3M–164.6M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.1M reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
Red Dead Redemption 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 26.2M–42.6M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $432.5M–$1162.8M after Steam's cut $786.3M–$1788.9M before the cut	$59.99	910k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldStory Rich
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.8M–50.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut $8.9M–$20.3M before the cut	$4.99	104k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
Cyberpunk 2077 2020	Est. copies ≈ 24.2M–39.3M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $399.0M–$1072.8M after Steam's cut $725.5M–$1650.4M before the cut	$59.99	975k reviews Very Positive	CyberpunkOpen World
Dead by Daylight 2016	Est. copies ≈ 38.7M–62.9M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $212.7M–$571.8M after Steam's cut $386.7M–$879.7M before the cut	$19.99	930k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
HAELE 3D - Feet Poses Lite - Drawing References 2023	Est. copies ≈ 595–967 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut	$17.99	24 reviews Positive	Design & IllustrationAnimation & Modeling
VTube Studio 2021	Est. copies ≈ 180k–293k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Very Positive	IndieMature