How much revenue did Saints Row IV: Re-Elected make?

$27.0M–$72.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Saints Row IV: Re-Elected sell?

Q: How many copies did Saints Row IV: Re-Elected sell?

4.9M to 8.0M copies, based on its 78k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.9M–8.0M; $27.0M–$72.5M after Steam's cut $49.0M–$111.5M before the cut; from 78k 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 Saints Row IV: Re-Elected out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Saints Row IV: Re-Elected's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.6M–28.8M

best case 132.9M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like Saints Row IV: Re-Elected

The middle of these games

≈ 10.6M–28.8M copies

≈ $102.5M–$467.2M after Steam's cut

from ~290k 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 Co-op (3 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: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.3M–164.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (3 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 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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