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How many copies did Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 110k–178k
$1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.2M 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.

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We left Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 300k–389k
best case 1.7M (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy)
Games like Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy

The middle of these games

≈ 300k–389k copies

≈ $3.1M–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.7M–$28.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Mystery (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Detective, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Singleplayer + Anime; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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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