How much revenue did A Plague Tale: Requiem make?

$9.4M–$25.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Plague Tale: Requiem sell?

Q: How many copies did A Plague Tale: Requiem sell?

684k to 1.1M copies, based on its 28k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 684k–1.1M; $9.4M–$25.3M after Steam's cut $17.1M–$38.9M before Steam's cut; from 28k reviews (Very 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 A Plague Tale: Requiem and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Plague Tale: Requiem's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–7.1M

best case 7.6M (Far Cry® 5)

Games like A Plague Tale: Requiem

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–7.1M copies

≈ $18.2M–$106.5M after Steam's cut

from ~156k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Far Cry® 5 at ≈ 5.8M–9.4M copies, ≈ $95.1M–$255.6M 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 8 to 93k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (8 of 8) and Action-Adventure (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Action-Adventure, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, 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 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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