How much revenue did Istanbul: Digital Edition make?

$30k–$81k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Istanbul: Digital Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Istanbul: Digital Edition sell?

8k to 14k copies, based on its 278 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–14k; $30k–$81k after Steam's cut $55k–$125k before the cut; from 278 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 Istanbul: Digital Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Istanbul: Digital Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 45k–118k

best case 2.3M (Pummel Party)

Games like Istanbul: Digital Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 45k–118k copies

≈ $99k–$592k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Pummel Party at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $7.2M–$19.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 727 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 125 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Board Game (8 of 8) and Tabletop (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 4 Player Local + Board Game, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Party Game + Minigames; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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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