How much revenue did King of Spies make?

$300–$804 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did King of Spies sell?

Q: How many copies did King of Spies sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $300–$804 after Steam's cut $545–$1k before Steam's cut; from 11 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 567k–1.1M

best case 2.1M (VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action)

Games like King of Spies

A typical game among these

≈ 567k–1.1M copies

≈ $6.9M–$11.5M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $6.7M–$17.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 496 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Visual Novel, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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