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How many copies did Money Theft sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 818–1k
$1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut
from 33 reviews (Mixed)

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 Money Theft out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Money Theft's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–37.1M
best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like Money Theft

The middle of these games

≈ 2.1M–37.1M copies

≈ $28.0M–$32.0M after Steam's cut

from ~135k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 2k.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Third-Person Shooter (5 of 8) and 3D Fighter (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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