Steam Revenue by Game

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How many Steam reviews?

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Nobody outside Valve sees real sales, so this estimates them: review count times thirty for copies, times the list price, minus Steam's tiered cut. The table carries the reviews, list price and peak players of the 100 most played games as of 2026-09-03. 64 of them are sold for money and have their own page; the rest are free-to-play or carry no store price, and an estimate built on a price they do not have would say nothing.

The numbers at a glance

Held fixed: How many Steam reviews? 500.

Average price per copy (USD)	Reaches the developer (USD)
5.00	52,500
10.00	105,000
15.00	157,500
19.99Your value	209,895
20.00	210,000
25.00	262,500
30.00	315,000
35.00	367,500

Three numbers per game, all read from Valve's own endpoints on 2026-09-03: the review count from the store review API, the list price from the store app API, and the weekly peak player count from the Steam charts API, which also fixes the order of this table. The estimate itself is the calculator above: reviews times thirty for copies sold, times the price for gross, minus Steam's tiered cut of 30% up to ten million dollars, 25% to fifty million and 20% above. Two of those three links are uncertain. Thirty sales per review is a rule of thumb from the Boxleiter method, not a measurement; published values run from about 20 to over 100 depending on genre, price and age, so the copy count alone can be off by a factor of three. And the price here is the LIST price, not the average a copy actually sold for: 15 of these 64 games were discounted on the check date, and every game sells a share of its copies in sales, in cheaper regions or in bundles. The errors can move the result in either direction. Read every figure as a rough estimate, never a revenue ceiling. Games without a purchase price get a row but no page: 29 of the top 100 are free-to-play, where the money is made inside the game and a price-times-copies estimate says nothing at all; 5 more are sold as games but return no price, and 2 are not games. Review counts move daily. This table is a snapshot of 2026-09-03; the calculator takes whatever number you type into it.

Game

Game	List price	Steam reviews	Peak players
Counter-Strike 2	free-to-play	9,833,248	1,300,990
Dota 2	free-to-play	2,770,616	834,096
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS	free-to-play	2,749,449	725,224
Apex Legends™	free-to-play	1,067,132	270,278
FiveM	not a game	347	180,397
Bongo Cat	free-to-play	109,695	160,467
Delta Force	free-to-play	193,974	109,341
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege	free-to-play	1,548,101	98,889
Marvel Rivals	free-to-play	413,228	90,688
TBH: Task Bar Hero	free-to-play	45,352	86,160
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy	no store price	2,076,218	73,667
War Thunder	free-to-play	780,534	73,331
Deadlock	no store price	0	72,751
Overwatch®	free-to-play	420,500	64,916
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT	free-to-play	302,570	64,606
Warframe	free-to-play	675,904	58,369
Team Fortress 2	free-to-play	1,249,384	57,850
VRChat	free-to-play	268,225	54,901
tModLoader	free-to-play	380,778	36,472
Limbus Company	free-to-play	117,358	34,194
WARDOGS Playtest	no store price	1,202	33,084
Arena Breakout: Infinite	free-to-play	77,164	32,194
Call of Duty®	no store price	780,767	29,764
OBS Studio	free-to-play	56,829	28,814
Once Human	free-to-play	185,134	27,744
The Sims™ 4	free-to-play	199,835	26,935
Rocket League®	no store price	579,984	26,549
Destiny 2	free-to-play	661,623	22,154
eFootball™	free-to-play	117,041	21,910
Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel	free-to-play	101,263	18,749
THE FINALS	free-to-play	275,559	15,679
Brawlhalla	free-to-play	411,901	13,422
Wuthering Waves	free-to-play	55,280	12,707
Zenless Zone Zero	free-to-play	15,332	9,224
Aimlabs	free-to-play	137,230	6,295

Worked examples

Case 1

How many Steam reviews?: 500
Average price per copy (USD): 19.99

209,895USD

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Case 2

How many Steam reviews?: 1000
Average price per copy (USD): 20

420,000USD

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Case 3

How many Steam reviews?: 100
Average price per copy (USD): 29.99

62,979USD

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How it's calculated

Developer = reviews × 30 × price − Steam's tiered cut

StepTake the review count from the game's Steam page.How many Steam reviews?=500
StepMultiply it by thirty for an estimate of copies sold.
StepMultiply by the average realised price to get gross revenue.Average price per copy (USD)=19.99
ResultSubtract Steam's cut: 30 % up to $10M, 25 % to $50M, 20 % above.How many Steam reviews?=500→209,895USD

What this number means

The interesting number about a game on Steam is not what it grossed but what reaches the studio, and this estimator works its way there from the only two figures anyone outside Valve can see: the public review count and a typical selling price. The chain has three links — reviews to copies, copies to gross, gross to the developer's share. At the preset values, 500 reviews multiplied by thirty give an estimated 15,000 copies; at 19.99 each that is 299,850 in gross sales; the first-tier cut of 30 % takes 89,955 and leaves 209,895.

Only the last link rests on published terms. The tier boundaries at ten and fifty million dollars are Valve's own, and they never come into play at this scale: the default game would need more than thirty times its gross to reach the first one. What the answer is not is money in hand.

It is a share of sales, standing before the cost of making the game, before anything owed out of that share to others, and before income tax. And the whole result inherits the uncertainty of its first link. Exact fee arithmetic on top of an estimated copy count does not make the estimate precise — it makes it precisely as uncertain as the multiplier is. Read it as an order of magnitude and replace it with real reporting as soon as you have any.

The multiplier is a rule of thumb

Thirty sales per review is an estimate, not a measurement. Published figures span roughly 20 to over 100 depending on genre, price, review culture and how long the game has been on sale. Treat the answer as an order of magnitude.

The tiers apply band by band

Steam takes 30 % up to ten million dollars of lifetime gross, 25 % to fifty million and 20 % above that. The lower rate applies only to the revenue inside each band, never retroactively to everything below it.

Tax comes off before the split

Steam collects VAT and sales tax and deducts them before the revenue split, so a gross figure built from shop prices is too high in VAT countries. Income tax on what reaches you comes on top of that.

The price is read as dollars

The ten and fifty million thresholds are Valve's dollar figures, which is why the price carries USD. Nothing here is converted into another currency.

Commonly misread

MisconceptionThis is what the game actually earned.

CorrectionNobody outside Valve and the publisher sees actual unit sales. This multiplies a public review count by a rule of thumb.

MisconceptionPast ten million dollars Steam takes 25 % of everything.

CorrectionThe lower rate applies only to the revenue inside each band. It is never applied retroactively to the gross below the threshold.

MisconceptionThe developer keeps 70 % of the shop price.

CorrectionRefunds, regional pricing, sale discounts, publisher shares and engine royalties all pull the real figure down. VAT is deducted before the split as well.

Reference table

Reviews, price	Estimated copies	Developer keeps
0, 19.99	0	0
100, 29.99	3000	62979
500, 19.99	15000	209895
1000, 9.99	30000	209790
1000, 20	30000	420000

Questions

What percentage does Steam take from game sales?

Steam keeps 30 % of gross sales by default, leaving the developer 70 %. Above ten million dollars of lifetime gross the cut drops to 25 %, and above fifty million to 20 %. Those thresholds are Valve's dollar figures, and very few games ever reach them.

What reviews-to-sales multiplier does this use?

Thirty sales per review, a common middle value for the Boxleiter method, and an estimate rather than a measurement. Published figures span roughly 20 to over 100 depending on genre, price, review culture and how long the game has been on sale. Treat the answer as an order of magnitude.

Does this know the real sales figures?

No. Nobody outside Valve and the publisher sees actual unit sales; this page multiplies a public review count by a rule of thumb. Two games with the same review count can differ severalfold in copies sold.

How does Steam's tiered revenue share work?

Lifetime gross up to ten million dollars is split 30 % to Steam, 70 % to the developer. Between ten and fifty million Steam takes 25 %, and above fifty million 20 %. The lower rate applies only to the revenue inside each band, never retroactively to everything below it.

Does the result include VAT and taxes?

No. Steam collects VAT and sales tax and deducts them before the revenue split, so a gross figure built from shop prices is too high in VAT countries. Income tax on what reaches you comes on top of that.

How accurate is the result?

The arithmetic is exact, the assumptions are not. Refunds, chargebacks, regional pricing, sale discounts, publisher shares and engine royalties all pull the real figure down, and the multiplier alone can be off by a factor of two either way. Use it for planning and compare it against real Steam reporting whenever you have it.

Sources and last check

Valve — Steam weekly chart peak playersChecked 2026-09-032026-09-02 rollupMeasured data
Valve — Steam US store list pricesChecked 2026-09-03US store, USD · 2026-09-03 snapshotMeasured data
Valve — Steam review countsChecked 2026-09-032026-09-03 snapshotMeasured data

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Steam Revenue by Game

The numbers at a glance

Game

Worked examples

Case 1

Case 2

Case 3

How it's calculated

What this number means

The multiplier is a rule of thumb

The tiers apply band by band

Tax comes off before the split

The price is read as dollars

Commonly misread

Reference table

Questions

Sources and last check

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