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How many copies did A Way Out sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2.5M–4.1M
$21.0M–$56.4M after Steam's cut $38.2M–$86.8M before the cut
from 103k reviews (Very Positive)

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

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.8M–6.6M
best case 37.1M (Rocket League®)
Games like A Way Out

The middle of these games

≈ 4.8M–6.6M copies

≈ $43.7M–$120.9M after Steam's cut

from ~126k 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: Rocket League® at ≈ 28.3M–46.0M copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 63k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Co-op (5 of 8) and Competitive (2 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Football (Soccer) + Competitive.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 to 2025, 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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4.6x vs typical
SteamSpy 10M–20M
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Need for Speed™ Heat
2020
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≈ 3.8M–6.2M
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Stick Fight: The Game
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≈ 6.7M–10.8M
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268k reviews
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≈ 3.1M–5.1M
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Resident Evil 5
2009
Est. copies
≈ 4.3M–6.9M
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$23.4M–$62.8M after Steam's cut $42.5M–$96.7M before the cut
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Est. copies
≈ 4.5M–7.3M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
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$19.99
71k reviews
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