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How many copies did UNDETECTED sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 3k–4k
$11k–$29k after Steam's cut $20k–$45k before the cut
from 107 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 UNDETECTED out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including UNDETECTED's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 175k–358k
best case 539k (Desperados III)
Games like UNDETECTED

The middle of these games

≈ 175k–358k copies

≈ $1.4M–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Desperados III at ≈ 411k–668k copies, ≈ $4.5M–$12.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 372 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Stealth (8 of 8) and Tactical (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Real Time Tactics + Stealth, priced around $40.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 3 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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2.9x vs typical
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