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How many copies did Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2.4M–3.9M
$39.3M–$105.5M after Steam's cut $71.4M–$162.4M before the cut
from 96k 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 Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26.7M–35.9M
best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)
Games like Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT

The middle of these games

≈ 26.7M–35.9M copies

≈ $194.0M–$751.3M after Steam's cut

from ~783k 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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 8) and Story Rich (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The era
None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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 61 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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SteamSpy 20M–50M
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$59.99
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CyberpunkOpen World
Hollow Knight
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≈ 19.2M–31.3M
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≈ 20.7M–33.6M
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≈ 26.2M–42.6M
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≈ 18.3M–29.7M
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Wallpaper Engine
2018
Est. copies
≈ 30.8M–50.0M
SteamSpy 20M–50M
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$42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut
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≈ 24.1M–39.2M
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$24.99
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