How much revenue did Velvet Assassin make?

$266k–$716k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Velvet Assassin sell?

Q: How many copies did Velvet Assassin sell?

162k to 263k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 162k–263k; $266k–$716k after Steam's cut $484k–$1.1M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–225k

best case 20.5M (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition)

Games like Velvet Assassin

The middle of these games

≈ 12k–225k copies

≈ $2k–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~618 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Female Protagonist (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: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition at ≈ 15.6M–25.4M copies, ≈ $172.0M–$462.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (4 of 8) and Stealth (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Fantasy, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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