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How big is Of Guards And Thieves?

Estimated owners
≈ 242k–393k
from 4k reviews (Very 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 Of Guards And Thieves out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Of Guards And Thieves's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.2M–9.7M
best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like Of Guards And Thieves

The middle of these games

≈ 3.2M–9.7M copies

≈ $59.8M–$100.4M after Steam's cut

from ~77k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is FPS (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on FPS (4 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Battle Royale + PvP + Third-Person Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 to 2019, 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 36 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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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
2017
Est. copies
≈ 94.5M–153.6M
36x vs typical
SteamSpy 100M–200M
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Free
Free
2.7M reviews
Mixed
SurvivalShooter
Metro 2033 Redux
2014
Est. copies
≈ 7.9M–12.8M
1.8x vs typical
SteamSpy 5M–10M
Est. revenue
$43.3M–$116.4M after Steam's cut $78.7M–$179.1M before the cut
$19.99
141k reviews
Very Positive
Post-apocalypticFPS
Hunt: Showdown 1896
2019
Est. copies
≈ 8.0M–13.0M
3.6x vs typical
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Est. revenue
$87.8M–$236.2M after Steam's cut $159.7M–$363.4M before the cut
$39.99
277k reviews
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Open WorldExtraction Shooter
theHunter: Call of the Wild™
2017
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≈ 7.0M–11.3M
2.6x vs typical
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Est. revenue
Free
Free
202k reviews
Very Positive
HuntingOpen World
HITMAN™ 2
2018
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≈ 2.3M–3.7M
SteamSpy 5M–10M
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Free
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Batman™: Arkham Origins
2013
Est. copies
≈ 4.1M–6.7M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$22.7M–$61.0M after Steam's cut $41.2M–$93.8M before the cut
$19.99
65k reviews
Very Positive
ActionOpen World
Sniper Elite 4
2017
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≈ 2.2M–3.5M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
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$59.99
63k reviews
Very Positive
SniperAction
Friday the 13th: The Game
2017
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≈ 2.6M–4.3M
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Very Positive
HorrorMultiplayer

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