How much revenue did Grand Theft Auto: Vice City make?

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Grand Theft Auto: Vice City sell?

Q: How many copies did Grand Theft Auto: Vice City sell?

1.9M to 3.1M copies, based on its 30k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.9M–3.1M; from 30k reviews (Very 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 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grand Theft Auto: Vice City's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 220–3.1M

best case 132.9M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

The middle of these games

≈ 220–3.1M copies

≈ $62k–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~424 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.3M–164.6M copies.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 17k reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automobile Sim (6 of 8) and Open World (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, and 3 of your 8 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 61 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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