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How many copies did 4089: Ghost Within sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 5k–9k
$9k–$23k after Steam's cut $16k–$36k before the cut
from 108 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 4089: Ghost Within out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 4089: Ghost Within's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 176k–379k
best case 793k (Roboquest)
Games like 4089: Ghost Within

The middle of these games

≈ 176k–379k copies

≈ $917k–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Roboquest at ≈ 604k–981k copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 926 to 11k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and FPS (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, 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 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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