How much revenue did Perfect Heist make?

$22k–$58k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Perfect Heist sell?

Q: How many copies did Perfect Heist sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 520 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $22k–$58k after Steam's cut $39k–$90k before the cut; from 520 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 Perfect Heist out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Perfect Heist's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–5.6M

best case 55.9M (PAYDAY 2)

Games like Perfect Heist

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–5.6M copies

≈ $11.3M–$71.1M after Steam's cut

from ~50k 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: PAYDAY 2 at ≈ 42.6M–69.2M copies, ≈ $117.1M–$314.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + FPS, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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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