How many copies did Secret World Legends sell?

318k to 517k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Secret World Legends make?

Secret World Legends is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Secret World Legends?

Estimated owners: ≈ 318k–517k; from 9k reviews (Mixed)

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 Secret World Legends out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Secret World Legends's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.0M–14.8M

best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Secret World Legends

The middle of these games

≈ 4.0M–14.8M copies

≈ $46.8M–$85.1M after Steam's cut

from ~162k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Dark Fantasy (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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$307.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 89 to 102k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dark Fantasy (3 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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