How much revenue did I'm on Observation Duty 3 make?

$8k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I'm on Observation Duty 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did I'm on Observation Duty 3 sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 368 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $8k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before the cut; from 368 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 I'm on Observation Duty 3 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I'm on Observation Duty 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.2M–6.5M

best case 8.9M (Resident Evil 4)

Games like I'm on Observation Duty 3

The middle of these games

≈ 4.2M–6.5M copies

≈ $15.7M–$60.5M after Steam's cut

from ~140k 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: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 6.8M–11.1M copies, ≈ $74.9M–$201.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 1 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 43 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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