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Action-focused Battlefield™ 2042 comes from DICE and was published by Electronic Arts in 2021. On Steam it has 259,236 reviews with 47% positive, a mixed signal for players comparing large-scale action games at its $59.99 initial price.
Overview
Battlefield™ 2042 is a 2021 Action game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. On Steam it has gathered 259,246 player reviews, 47% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $60. The pairing of developer DICE with publisher Electronic Arts is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 10.9 million to 25.4 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Battlefield™ 2042 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
259,246
Positive
47%
Steam appid
1517290
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.010.9M to 25.4M
units (median: 18.1M)
≈ $373.1M to $870.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$60 | +15 |
| positive_47% | -10 |
| final NB | 70 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Battlefield™ 2042 at roughly 10.9 million to 25.4 million copies, with a median around 18.1 million, derived from its 259,246 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $621.8M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $33.90Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $33.90 to $59.99, averaging $56.53 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $33.90 on 2026-03-20.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Battlefield™ 2042 sold?
- indielist estimates Battlefield™ 2042 has sold between 10,888,332 and 25,406,108 units (median 18,147,220), derived from its 259,246 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Battlefield™ 2042?
- Battlefield™ 2042 was developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts.
- When was Battlefield™ 2042 released?
- Battlefield™ 2042 was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Battlefield™ 2042 have on Steam?
- Battlefield™ 2042 has 259,246 Steam reviews, of which 47% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Battlefield™ 2042 within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, DICE's other releases and Electronic Arts's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Battlefield™ 2042 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Battlefield™ 2042 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.