How much revenue did METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE make?

$41.0M–$110.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE sell?

Q: How many copies did METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE sell?

5.0M to 8.1M copies, based on its 89k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.0M–8.1M; $41.0M–$110.3M after Steam's cut $74.6M–$169.8M before the cut; from 89k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.9M–7.3M

best case 20.6M (Monster Hunter: World)

Games like METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE

The middle of these games

≈ 6.9M–7.3M copies

≈ $70.5M–$81.8M after Steam's cut

from ~153k 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: Monster Hunter: World at ≈ 15.7M–25.5M copies, ≈ $129.4M–$347.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (5 of 8) and Third Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Ninja, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Action; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2020, 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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