Genre StrategyReleased Oct 23, 2014

Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™

Estimated lifetime revenue
$5.08M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$3.55M
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
274.1K
≈ 12 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 23,187 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
23,187
Mixed61% positive
Playing now
280
13-day peak 308 · low 201
New reviews, last 13 days
+8
≈ 1 a day since Oct 4

History

Oct 4 – Oct 17

23.2K23.2K23.2K23.2K
Oct 4Oct 10Oct 17

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Strategy →

Against the 120 most-reviewed Strategy games on Steam

Outearns 31% of them — below the group's median.

Median
$15.59M
114,721 reviews
Top 10% start at
$67.69M
This game
$5.08M
Fewest reviews of the group

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.

Developer
Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)
Publisher
2K, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)
Genre
Strategy
Released
Oct 23, 2014
Steam app ID
65980
Data updated
Oct 17, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.