How much revenue did Mafia II: Definitive Edition make?

$8.0M–$21.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mafia II: Definitive Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Mafia II: Definitive Edition sell?

967k to 1.6M copies, based on its 39k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 967k–1.6M; $8.0M–$21.4M after Steam's cut $14.5M–$33.0M before Steam's cut; from 39k reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Mafia II: Definitive Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mafia II: Definitive Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.6M–19.2M

best case 133.2M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like Mafia II: Definitive Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 3.6M–19.2M copies

≈ $48.4M–$96.1M after Steam's cut

from ~158k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.5M–164.9M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 58k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Crime (6 of 8) and Open World (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2020, 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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