How much revenue did US Spy: Mission in Russia make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did US Spy: Mission in Russia sell?

Q: How many copies did US Spy: Mission in Russia sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 219 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut; from 219 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 US Spy: Mission in Russia out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including US Spy: Mission in Russia's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–852k

best case 6.7M (Papers, Please)

Games like US Spy: Mission in Russia

The middle of these games

≈ 37k–852k copies

≈ $208k–$9.1M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Papers, Please at ≈ 5.1M–8.3M copies, ≈ $13.9M–$37.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 59 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Political (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Political + Simulation, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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 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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