How much revenue did Max Payne make?

$2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Max Payne sell?

Q: How many copies did Max Payne sell?

1.0M to 1.6M copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.0M–1.6M; $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.4M before the cut; from 16k 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 Max Payne out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Max Payne's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 67k–1.2M

best case 3.6M (Mafia: Definitive Edition)

Games like Max Payne

The middle of these games

≈ 67k–1.2M copies

≈ $300k–$7.2M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mafia: Definitive Edition at ≈ 2.8M–4.5M copies, ≈ $30.3M–$81.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 836 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 75 to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 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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