How much revenue did Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective make?

$1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective sell?

Q: How many copies did Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective sell?

211k to 343k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 211k–343k; $1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.2M before the cut; from 9k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.4M

best case 3.5M (Outer Wilds)

Games like Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies

≈ $7.6M–$19.0M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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: Outer Wilds at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies, ≈ $18.2M–$48.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mystery (7 of 8) and Story Rich (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Space, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Space + Exploration + Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2020, and none of them 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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