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How many copies did Agents of Mayhem sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 168k–273k
$1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before the cut
from 5k 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 Agents of Mayhem out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Agents of Mayhem's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.5M–7.5M
best case 132.9M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)
Games like Agents of Mayhem

The middle of these games

≈ 5.5M–7.5M copies

≈ $22.9M–$48.3M after Steam's cut

from ~78k 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: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.3M–164.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Open World (8 of 8) and Sandbox (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + Crime. The breakout hits carry Crime + Automobile Sim + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2008 to 2015, 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 61 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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