How big is Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist?

Q: How many copies did Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist sell?

497k to 807k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated owners: ≈ 497k–807k; from 10k 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 Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–3.5M

best case 103.6M (Team Fortress 2)

Games like Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist

The middle of these games

≈ 2.7M–3.5M copies

≈ $20.2M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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 First-Person (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: Team Fortress 2 at ≈ 79.0M–128.3M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Anime, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2025, 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 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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