How much revenue did Far Cry® 5 make?

$94.6M–$254.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Far Cry® 5 sell?

Q: How many copies did Far Cry® 5 sell?

5.7M to 9.3M copies, based on its 189k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.7M–9.3M; $94.6M–$254.3M after Steam's cut $171.9M–$391.2M before the cut; from 189k 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 Far Cry® 5 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Far Cry® 5's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–7.9M

best case 10.3M (Sons Of The Forest)

Games like Far Cry® 5

The middle of these games

≈ 2.9M–7.9M copies

≈ $34.4M–$89.3M after Steam's cut

from ~119k 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.

Best case: Sons Of The Forest at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies, ≈ $65.0M–$174.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 82k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19k to 178k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and Co-op (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World, priced around $30.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 43 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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