How much revenue did The Testament of Sherlock Holmes make?

$1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Testament of Sherlock Holmes sell?

Q: How many copies did The Testament of Sherlock Holmes sell?

249k to 404k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 249k–404k; $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before the cut; from 4k 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 Testament of Sherlock Holmes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Testament of Sherlock Holmes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.8M–6.7M

best case 6.6M (Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition)

Games like The Testament of Sherlock Holmes

The middle of these games

≈ 4.8M–6.7M copies

≈ $50.4M–$77.5M after Steam's cut

from ~134k 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: Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11k to 58k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 8) and Third Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Automobile Sim.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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).

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