How much revenue did Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition make?

$6.7M–$18.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition sell?

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

407k to 662k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 407k–662k; $6.7M–$18.1M after Steam's cut $12.2M–$27.8M before Steam's cut; from 16k reviews (Very 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 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 828k–4.1M

best case 7.4M (Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced)

Games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 828k–4.1M copies

≈ $45.7M–$91.7M after Steam's cut

from ~58k 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: Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced at ≈ 5.7M–9.2M copies, ≈ $46.6M–$125.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (8 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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