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How many copies did Unaided: 1939 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 707–1k
$970–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut
from 17 reviews (Mostly 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 Unaided: 1939 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Unaided: 1939's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 48k–91k
best case 103k (Kill The Crows)
Games like Unaided: 1939

The middle of these games

≈ 48k–91k copies

≈ $198k–$299k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Kill The Crows at ≈ 78k–127k copies, ≈ $107k–$289k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 354 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 183 to 605.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Top-Down Shooter (7 of 8) and Arcade (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Western + Arcade, priced around $5.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 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 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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