How much revenue did Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition make?

$3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition sell?

194k to 315k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 194k–315k; $3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.2M before Steam's cut; from 8k 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 Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 118k–521k

best case 713k (Red Dead Redemption)

Games like Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 118k–521k copies

≈ $1.7M–$12.1M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Red Dead Redemption at ≈ 543k–883k copies, ≈ $7.5M–$20.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 684 reviews in their first month; the range was 14 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (8 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Western, priced around $50.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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