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How many copies did Gangsters 1920 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 202–328
$166–$447 after Steam's cut $302–$687 before Steam's cut
from 7 reviews (7 user reviews)
Only 7 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Gangsters 1920 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gangsters 1920's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 236k–661k
best case 1.1M (Chants of Sennaar)
Games like Gangsters 1920

A typical game among these

≈ 236k–661k copies

≈ $2.1M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Chants of Sennaar at ≈ 869k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.8M–$12.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 353 to 15k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Point & Click, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 1 of the 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 52 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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