How much revenue did Genesis Noir make?

$232k–$623k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Genesis Noir sell?

Q: How many copies did Genesis Noir sell?

56k to 91k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 56k–91k; $232k–$623k after Steam's cut $421k–$959k before the cut; from 2k 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 Genesis Noir out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Genesis Noir's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.8M–3.9M

best case 4.9M (Disco Elysium - The Final Cut)

Games like Genesis Noir

The middle of these games

≈ 2.8M–3.9M copies

≈ $18.6M–$44.7M after Steam's cut

from ~52k 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: Disco Elysium - The Final Cut at ≈ 3.8M–6.1M copies, ≈ $41.3M–$111.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and Detective (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2020, 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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