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How many copies did DETECTIVE - Stella Porta case sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 967–2k
$3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut
from 39 reviews (Mixed)

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 DETECTIVE - Stella Porta case out and predicted the genre from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including DETECTIVE - Stella Porta case's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–46k
best case 393k (Judgment)
Games like DETECTIVE - Stella Porta case

The middle of these games

≈ 41k–46k copies

≈ $254k–$394k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

All 6 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: Judgment at ≈ 300k–487k copies, ≈ $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 462 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 105 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Realistic (4 of 6) and Detective (3 of 6).
The winners
Winners here lead with Investigation + Typing, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Action + Beat 'em up + Action-Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of your 6 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 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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