How much revenue did L.A. Noire make?

$12.8M–$34.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did L.A. Noire sell?

Q: How many copies did L.A. Noire sell?

2.3M to 3.8M copies, based on its 37k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.3M–3.8M; $12.8M–$34.4M after Steam's cut $23.3M–$53.0M before the cut; from 37k 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 L.A. Noire out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including L.A. Noire's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 147k–237k

best case 609k (Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator)

Games like L.A. Noire

The middle of these games

≈ 147k–237k copies

≈ $1.8M–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator at ≈ 464k–754k copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.6M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 321 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Detective (7 of 8) and Crime (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Crime, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, 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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