How much revenue did The Matchless Kungfu make?

$1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Matchless Kungfu sell?

Q: How many copies did The Matchless Kungfu sell?

197k to 320k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 197k–320k; $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before Steam's cut; from 8k 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 The Matchless Kungfu and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Matchless Kungfu's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 503k–1.5M

best case 5.9M (Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition)

Games like The Matchless Kungfu

A typical game among these

≈ 503k–1.5M copies

≈ $3.5M–$21.8M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition at ≈ 4.5M–7.3M copies, ≈ $24.6M–$66.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 15k reviews in their first month; the range was 437 to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Martial Arts (7 of 8) and Sandbox (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Martial Arts, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2026, and 1 of the 7 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 70 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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