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How many copies did Death to Spies sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 64k–104k
$88k–$237k after Steam's cut $160k–$365k 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 Death to Spies out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death to Spies's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.9M–7.2M
best case 10.2M (Batman™: Arkham Knight)
Games like Death to Spies

The middle of these games

≈ 5.9M–7.2M copies

≈ $55.0M–$78.8M after Steam's cut

from ~99k 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: Batman™: Arkham Knight at ≈ 7.8M–12.6M copies, ≈ $42.7M–$114.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Third Person (8 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + Superhero, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 to 2025, 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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