How much revenue did Sherlock Holmes Chapter One make?

$1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sherlock Holmes Chapter One sell?

Q: How many copies did Sherlock Holmes Chapter One sell?

111k to 181k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 111k–181k; $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Sherlock Holmes Chapter One out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sherlock Holmes Chapter One's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–5.7M

best case 10.2M (Batman™: Arkham Knight)

Games like Sherlock Holmes Chapter One

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–5.7M copies

≈ $9.8M–$56.5M after Steam's cut

from ~51k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Batman™: Arkham Knight at ≈ 7.8M–12.6M copies, ≈ $42.7M–$114.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Detective (5 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Superhero, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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