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How many copies did The Assembly sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–11k
$58k–$155k after Steam's cut $105k–$238k before the cut
from 168 reviews (Mostly Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 423k–1.1M
best case 5.7M (Resident Evil 7 Biohazard)
Games like The Assembly

The middle of these games

≈ 423k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.4M–$17.6M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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 Story Rich (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: Resident Evil 7 Biohazard at ≈ 4.3M–7.1M copies, ≈ $23.9M–$64.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 392 to 9k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Story Rich (4 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 1 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 43 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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