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Action-focused Far Cry® 5 comes from Ubisoft Montreal, with Ubisoft as publisher. The 2018 release has 186,307 Steam reviews at 81% positive, marked mostly positive, and launched at an initial price of $59.99.
Overview
Far Cry® 5 is a 2018 Action game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. On Steam it has gathered 170,380 player reviews, 81% 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 $60. The pairing of developer Ubisoft Montreal with publisher Ubisoft 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 8.2 million to 19.1 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, Far Cry® 5 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
170,380
Positive
81%
Steam appid
552520
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.08.2M to 19.1M
units (median: 13.6M)
≈ $280.2M to $653.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$60 | +15 |
| positive_81% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
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 Far Cry® 5 at roughly 8.2 million to 19.1 million copies, with a median around 13.6 million, derived from its 170,380 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $467.1M 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 $39.68Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $39.68 to $59.99, averaging $55.90 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $39.68 on 2026-05-19.
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Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Far Cry® 5 sold?
- indielist estimates Far Cry® 5 has sold between 8,178,240 and 19,082,560 units (median 13,630,400), derived from its 170,380 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Far Cry® 5?
- Far Cry® 5 was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
- When was Far Cry® 5 released?
- Far Cry® 5 was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Far Cry® 5 have on Steam?
- Far Cry® 5 has 170,380 Steam reviews, of which 81% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Far Cry® 5 within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Ubisoft Montreal's other releases and Ubisoft's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Far Cry® 5 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 Far Cry® 5 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.