How much revenue did American Theft 80s make?

$148k–$397k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did American Theft 80s sell?

Q: How many copies did American Theft 80s sell?

27k to 44k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–44k; $148k–$397k after Steam's cut $269k–$611k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 American Theft 80s and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including American Theft 80s's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 86k–91k

best case 96k (The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time)

Games like American Theft 80s

A typical game among these

≈ 86k–91k copies

≈ $410k–$606k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time at ≈ 73k–118k copies, ≈ $300k–$806k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 40 reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 3k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Heist (7 of 8) and Action-Adventure (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Heist + Comedy, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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