Aliens: Fireteam Elite
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Action co-op shooter set in the Aliens universe, released in 2021. Developed and published by Cold Iron Studios, the game has garnered 21,273 Steam reviews with 80% positive sentiment. Players face Xenomorph threats in this squad-based experience.
Overview
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a 2021 Action game developed by Cold Iron Studios and published by Cold Iron Studios. On Steam it has gathered 26,702 player reviews, 80% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Cold Iron Studios with publisher Cold Iron Studios 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 1.1 million to 2.6 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, Aliens: Fireteam Elite can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
26,702
Positive
80%
Steam appid
1549970
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.1M to 2.6M
units (median: 1.9M)
≈ $19.2M to $44.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| 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 Aliens: Fireteam Elite at roughly 1.1 million to 2.6 million copies, with a median around 1.9 million, derived from its 26,702 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $32.0M 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 $15.62Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $15.62 to $29.99, averaging $28.11 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $15.62 on 2026-04-08.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Co-opShooterAliensActionHorrorThird-Person ShooterCharacter CustomizationOnline Co-OpSci-fiSurvivalSpaceSurvival HorrorAtmosphericRPGThird PersonMultiplayerPvEControllerSingleplayerCo-op Campaign
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Aliens: Fireteam Elite sold?
- indielist estimates Aliens: Fireteam Elite has sold between 1,121,484 and 2,616,796 units (median 1,869,140), derived from its 26,702 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Aliens: Fireteam Elite?
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite was developed by Cold Iron Studios and published by Cold Iron Studios.
- When was Aliens: Fireteam Elite released?
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Aliens: Fireteam Elite have on Steam?
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite has 26,702 Steam reviews, of which 80% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Aliens: Fireteam Elite within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Cold Iron Studios's other releases and Cold Iron Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Aliens: Fireteam Elite 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 Aliens: Fireteam Elite 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.