How much revenue did South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ make?

$9.5M–$25.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ sell?

Q: How many copies did South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ sell?

1.2M to 1.9M copies, based on its 33k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–1.9M; $9.5M–$25.5M after Steam's cut $17.3M–$39.3M before the cut; from 33k 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 South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 780k–2.7M

best case 25.9M (Borderlands 2)

Games like South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™

The middle of these games

≈ 780k–2.7M copies

≈ $6.3M–$18.1M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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 Co-op (3 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: Borderlands 2 at ≈ 19.7M–32.1M copies, ≈ $108.4M–$291.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 29k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (3 of 8) and Comedy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Loot + Shooter, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Looter Shooter + Loot; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 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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