How much revenue did Hitman: Absolution™ make?

$22.1M–$59.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hitman: Absolution™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Hitman: Absolution™ sell?

4.0M to 6.5M copies, based on its 64k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.0M–6.5M; $22.1M–$59.3M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.3M before the cut; from 64k 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 Hitman: Absolution™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hitman: Absolution™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.2M–29.4M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Hitman: Absolution™

The middle of these games

≈ 8.2M–29.4M copies

≈ $135.2M–$314.1M after Steam's cut

from ~312k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Third Person (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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Third Person (4 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 8.8x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Dead by Daylight 2016	Est. copies ≈ 38.7M–62.9M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $212.7M–$571.8M after Steam's cut $386.7M–$879.7M before the cut	$19.99	930k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
Stray 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $36.3M–$97.6M after Steam's cut $66.0M–$150.1M before the cut	$29.99	177k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsAdventure
Assassin's Creed® Odyssey 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.7M–9.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $94.2M–$253.2M after Steam's cut $171.3M–$389.6M before the cut	$59.99	188k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldRPG
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $53.2M–$143.0M after Steam's cut $96.7M–$220.1M before the cut	$29.99	155k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAction
Tomb Raider Game of the Year 2013	Est. copies ≈ 17.0M–27.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $93.5M–$251.3M after Steam's cut $169.9M–$386.6M before the cut	$19.99	269k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventureAction
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition 2019	Est. copies ≈ 10.2M–16.6M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $168.6M–$453.2M after Steam's cut $306.5M–$697.3M before the cut	$59.99	355k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Souls-likeDifficult
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.6M–25.4M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $172.0M–$462.5M after Steam's cut $312.8M–$711.6M before the cut	$39.99	376k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldRPG