How much revenue did Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition make?

$27.4M–$73.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition sell?

1.7M to 2.7M copies, based on its 67k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.7M–2.7M; $27.4M–$73.7M after Steam's cut $49.8M–$113.3M before the cut; from 67k 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 Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.3M–7.9M

best case 56.7M (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition)

Games like Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 7.3M–7.9M copies

≈ $142.3M–$167.3M after Steam's cut

from ~197k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition at ≈ 43.2M–70.2M copies, ≈ $593.9M–$1596.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 171k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 72k to 268k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $55. The breakout hits carry Choices Matter + Fantasy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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