How much revenue did Thief Simulator 2 make?

$915k–$2.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Thief Simulator 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Thief Simulator 2 sell?

167k to 271k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 167k–271k; $915k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before the cut; from 7k 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 Thief Simulator 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Thief Simulator 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–5.1M

best case 55.9M (PAYDAY 2)

Games like Thief Simulator 2

The middle of these games

≈ 1.0M–5.1M copies

≈ $4.5M–$29.6M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Crime (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: PAYDAY 2 at ≈ 42.6M–69.2M copies, ≈ $117.1M–$314.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Crime (4 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + FPS, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 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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Schedule I 2025	Est. copies ≈ 7.8M–12.7M 8.5x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $42.9M–$115.2M after Steam's cut $77.9M–$177.3M before the cut	$19.99	314k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Simulation Co-op
Due Process 2020	Est. copies ≈ 212k–344k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $582k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before the cut	$9.99	9k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessAdventure
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NEKOPARA Vol. 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 535k–869k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before the cut	$9.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeSexual Content
Thief Simulator 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.6M–$17.8M after Steam's cut $12.0M–$27.4M before the cut	$19.99	40k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Stealth
PAYDAY™ The Heist 2011	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $7.1M–$19.1M after Steam's cut $12.9M–$29.4M before the cut	$9.99	41k reviews Very Positive	FPSAction
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