How much revenue did Methods: The Canada Files make?

$54k–$145k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Methods: The Canada Files sell?

Q: How many copies did Methods: The Canada Files sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 396 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $54k–$145k after Steam's cut $98k–$223k before the cut; from 396 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 Methods: The Canada Files out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Methods: The Canada Files's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 396k–743k

best case 11.4M (POSTAL 2)

Games like Methods: The Canada Files

The middle of these games

≈ 396k–743k copies

≈ $2.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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 Dark Humor (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: POSTAL 2 at ≈ 8.7M–14.1M copies, ≈ $23.8M–$64.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dark Humor (4 of 8) and Comedy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Violent + Dark Humor, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Violent + Mature + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 1997 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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POSTAL 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 8.7M–14.1M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $23.8M–$64.0M after Steam's cut $43.3M–$98.5M before the cut	$9.99	137k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ViolentDark Humor
POSTAL 1997	Est. copies ≈ 911k–1.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	14k reviews Very Positive	HorrorVillain Protagonist
Comedy Night 2017	Est. copies ≈ 320k–519k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $439k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $797k–$1.8M before the cut	$4.99	9k reviews Mostly Positive	CasualComedy
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