How much revenue did Assassin's Creed® Unity make?

$39.5M–$106.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Assassin's Creed® Unity sell?

Q: How many copies did Assassin's Creed® Unity sell?

4.8M to 7.8M copies, based on its 85k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.8M–7.8M; $39.5M–$106.1M after Steam's cut $71.8M–$163.2M before the cut; from 85k reviews (Mostly 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 Assassin's Creed® Unity out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Assassin's Creed® Unity's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.0M–6.8M

best case 7.5M (Assassin's Creed® Odyssey)

Games like Assassin's Creed® Unity

The middle of these games

≈ 4.0M–6.8M copies

≈ $40.2M–$114.6M after Steam's cut

from ~88k 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: Assassin's Creed® Odyssey at ≈ 5.7M–9.3M copies, ≈ $94.2M–$253.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Assassin (7 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Historical, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2018, 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 38 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $21.4M–$57.6M after Steam's cut $38.9M–$88.6M before the cut	$39.99	79k reviews Very Positive	PiratesOpen World
Assassin's Creed 2 2010	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.3M–$57.3M after Steam's cut $38.7M–$88.1M before the cut	$19.99	61k reviews Very Positive	ActionOpen World
Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood 2011	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.7M too small to compare SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.3M–$24.9M after Steam's cut $16.9M–$38.3M before the cut	$19.99	27k reviews Very Positive	ActionOpen World
Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ 2014	Est. copies ≈ 5.4M–8.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $29.8M–$80.2M after Steam's cut $54.2M–$123.4M before the cut	$19.99	97k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
Assassin's Creed® Odyssey 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.7M–9.3M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $94.2M–$253.2M after Steam's cut $171.3M–$389.6M before the cut	$59.99	188k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldRPG
Assassin's Creed® Origins 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $72.9M–$196.0M after Steam's cut $132.6M–$301.6M before the cut	$59.99	128k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAssassin
Assassin's Creed® Syndicate 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M too small to compare SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.3M–$35.7M after Steam's cut $24.2M–$55.0M before the cut	$29.99	33k reviews Very Positive	AssassinOpen World
Dishonored 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.9M–$61.5M after Steam's cut $41.6M–$94.7M before the cut	$29.99	67k reviews Very Positive	StealthFirst-Person