How much revenue did The Slater make?

$87k–$235k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Slater sell?

Q: How many copies did The Slater sell?

32k to 52k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 32k–52k; $87k–$235k after Steam's cut $159k–$361k before the cut; from 1k 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 The Slater out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Slater's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 586k–2.1M

best case 3.0M (HITMAN™ 2)

Games like The Slater

The middle of these games

≈ 586k–2.1M copies

≈ $6.1M–$20.4M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: HITMAN™ 2 at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Stealth (8 of 8) and Assassin (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Stealth + Assassin.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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 70 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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HITMAN™ 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	75k reviews Very Positive	StealthAssassin
HITMAN World of Assassination 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $32.7M–$87.9M after Steam's cut $59.4M–$135.2M before the cut	$69.99	68k reviews Very Positive	StealthAssassin
Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 458k–745k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's cut $6.9M–$15.6M before the cut	$29.99	13k reviews Very Positive	StealthAction
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $17.6M–$47.2M after Steam's cut $31.9M–$72.7M before the cut	$39.99	38k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StealthStrategy
Desperados III 2020	Est. copies ≈ 411k–668k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.1M after Steam's cut $8.2M–$18.7M before the cut	$39.99	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Real Time TacticsStrategy
Aragami 2016	Est. copies ≈ 540k–878k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.0M–$8.0M after Steam's cut $5.4M–$12.3M before the cut	$19.99	13k reviews Very Positive	StealthNinja
Mark of the Ninja: Remastered 2018	Est. copies ≈ 211k–342k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before the cut	$19.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StealthNinja
Styx: Master of Shadows 2014	Est. copies ≈ 655k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.6M–$9.7M after Steam's cut $6.5M–$14.9M before the cut	$19.99	12k reviews Very Positive	StealthSingleplayer