How much revenue did The Last of Us™ Part I make?

An estimated 41.7M to 112.1M net after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Last of Us™ Part I sell?

Q: How many copies did The Last of Us™ Part I sell?

An estimated 2.5M to 4.1M copies, based on its 105k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.5M–4.1M; $41.7M–$112.1M net $75.8M–$172.5M gross; from 105k 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 The Last of Us™ Part I out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Last of Us™ Part I's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–5.8M

best case 29.9M (Dying Light)

The Story Rich lane

A big, proven genre: most sell around 3.3M copies.

A typical game

≈ 3.3M copies

≈ $31.5M after Steam's cut

from ~67k reviews

Best case

≈ 29.9M copies

Dying Light · ≈ $288.3M after Steam's cut

from 490k reviews

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count; typical figures are medians per column, so they can come from different games.

The lane you'd be entering

Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $25.
The games you compared span 2007 to 2022, a lane with a long track record.
A typical game here lands in Diamond ($1M+ before Steam's cut, est.). Tiers: Chris Zukowski's benchmark tiers.

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