How much revenue did CONTROL Ultimate Edition make?

$17.2M–$46.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CONTROL Ultimate Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did CONTROL Ultimate Edition sell?

1.6M to 2.5M copies, based on its 63k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.6M–2.5M; $17.2M–$46.1M after Steam's cut $31.2M–$71.0M before the cut; from 63k 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 CONTROL Ultimate Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CONTROL Ultimate Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 353k–1.6M

best case 3.6M (Dishonored 2)

Games like CONTROL Ultimate Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 353k–1.6M copies

≈ $4.7M–$10.6M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Dishonored 2 at ≈ 2.8M–4.5M copies, ≈ $22.9M–$61.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 660 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Stealth + First-Person, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2024, and 2 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 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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