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How many copies did Total Rendition sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 50–81
from 2 reviews (2 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 2 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Total Rendition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Total Rendition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–146k
best case 3.1M (L.A. Noire)
Games like Total Rendition

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–146k copies

≈ $4k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~281 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: L.A. Noire at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $12.8M–$34.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 51 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 2k.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Noir (6 of 8) and Detective (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Detective + Crime, priced around $20.
The era
4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.
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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