How much revenue did The Free Ones make?

The Free Ones is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did The Free Ones sell?

Q: How many copies did The Free Ones sell?

23k to 38k copies, based on its 772 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–38k; from 772 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 The Free Ones out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Free Ones's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 204k–1.0M

best case 3.3M (Mirror's Edge™)

Games like The Free Ones

The middle of these games

≈ 204k–1.0M copies

≈ $1.7M–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Mirror's Edge™ at ≈ 2.5M–4.0M copies, ≈ $13.7M–$36.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 149 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (8 of 8) and Parkour (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + Parkour, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2025, and 1 of your 8 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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