How much revenue did Split Fiction make?

$43.1M–$115.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Split Fiction sell?

Q: How many copies did Split Fiction sell?

3.1M to 5.1M copies, based on its 126k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3.1M–5.1M; $43.1M–$115.8M after Steam's cut $78.3M–$178.1M before the cut; from 126k 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 Split Fiction out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Split Fiction's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 388k–5.7M

best case 8.7M (It Takes Two)

Games like Split Fiction

The middle of these games

≈ 388k–5.7M copies

≈ $6.0M–$43.7M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: It Takes Two at ≈ 6.7M–10.8M copies, ≈ $73.2M–$196.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (6 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2021, 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 79 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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