How much revenue did US Spy: Mission in Russia make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did US Spy: Mission in Russia sell?

Q: How many copies did US Spy: Mission in Russia sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 220 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut; from 220 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 US Spy: Mission in Russia and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including US Spy: Mission in Russia's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 471k–1.7M

best case 6.7M (Papers, Please)

Games like US Spy: Mission in Russia

A typical game among these

≈ 471k–1.7M copies

≈ $4.7M–$16.0M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Papers, Please at ≈ 5.1M–8.3M copies, ≈ $14.0M–$37.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 59 to 51k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Political (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Political + Simulation, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2026, and 2 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 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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