How much revenue did Red Faction®: Armageddon™ make?

$1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Red Faction®: Armageddon™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Red Faction®: Armageddon™ sell?

317k to 516k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 317k–516k; $1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.2M before the cut; from 5k 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 Red Faction®: Armageddon™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Red Faction®: Armageddon™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 123k–338k

best case 374k (Destroy All Humans!)

Games like Red Faction®: Armageddon™

The middle of these games

≈ 123k–338k copies

≈ $1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

Best case: Destroy All Humans! at ≈ 285k–463k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 53 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (6 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Villain Protagonist + Aliens, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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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Destroy All Humans! 2020	Est. copies ≈ 285k–463k 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.7M before the cut	$29.99	12k reviews Very Positive	ActionAdventure
Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed 2022	Est. copies ≈ 79k–128k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $867k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before the cut	$39.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	Third-Person ShooterAliens
Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered 2018	Est. copies ≈ 135k–219k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $740k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.1M before the cut	$19.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	DestructionOpen World
Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition 2009	Est. copies ≈ 487k–791k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	8k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldDestruction
Starpoint Gemini 2 2014	Est. copies ≈ 230k–375k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.2M before the cut	$34.99	4k reviews Mixed	SpaceSimulation
AFTERBURN 2019	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $26k–$70k after Steam's cut $47k–$107k before the cut	$9.99	328 reviews Very Positive	FlightThird-Person Shooter
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered 2020	Est. copies ≈ 63k–103k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $436k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $793k–$1.8M before the cut	$24.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Third-Person ShooterAction
Exoprimal 2023	Est. copies ≈ 109k–178k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.5M before the cut	$59.99	4k reviews Mixed	ActionShooter