How much revenue did Desperados III make?

$4.5M–$12.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Desperados III sell?

Q: How many copies did Desperados III sell?

411k to 668k copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 411k–668k; $4.5M–$12.1M after Steam's cut $8.2M–$18.7M before the cut; from 17k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Desperados III out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Desperados III's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 267k–1.3M

best case 1.7M (One-armed robber)

Games like Desperados III

The middle of these games

≈ 267k–1.3M copies

≈ $2.3M–$11.7M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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.

Best case: One-armed robber at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tactical (5 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Heist + Co-op.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 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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