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How many copies did BioShock™ Remastered sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2.7M–4.4M
$14.8M–$39.8M after Steam's cut $26.9M–$61.3M before the cut
from 65k reviews (Very 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 BioShock™ Remastered out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including BioShock™ Remastered's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30.2M–39.1M
best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)
Games like BioShock™ Remastered

The middle of these games

≈ 30.2M–39.1M copies

≈ $113.5M–$442.5M after Steam's cut

from ~878k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on First-Person (3 of 4) and FPS (2 of 4).
The winners
Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The era
The games you compared span 2011 to 2022, 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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Wallpaper Engine
2018
Est. copies
≈ 30.8M–50.0M
SteamSpy 20M–50M
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Cyberpunk 2077
2020
Est. copies
≈ 24.2M–39.3M
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≈ 29.4M–47.8M
SteamSpy 5M–10M
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$80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut $147.0M–$334.4M before the cut
$9.99
466k reviews
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