How much revenue did Ace Attorney Investigations Collection make?

$1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ace Attorney Investigations Collection sell?

Q: How many copies did Ace Attorney Investigations Collection sell?

118k to 192k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 118k–192k; $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before the cut; from 5k 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 Ace Attorney Investigations Collection out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ace Attorney Investigations Collection's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 617k–664k

best case 5.3M (Content Warning)

Games like Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

The middle of these games

≈ 617k–664k copies

≈ $2.0M–$4.2M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: Content Warning at ≈ 4.0M–6.6M copies, ≈ $8.9M–$23.8M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 724 to 55k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mystery (5 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Escape Room, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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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