How much revenue did Murders on the Yangtze River make?

$2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Murders on the Yangtze River sell?

Q: How many copies did Murders on the Yangtze River sell?

526k to 855k copies, based on its 21k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 526k–855k; $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$9.0M before the cut; from 21k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Murders on the Yangtze River out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Murders on the Yangtze River's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–4.1M

best case 10.2M (Batman™: Arkham Knight)

Games like Murders on the Yangtze River

The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–4.1M copies

≈ $13.1M–$31.7M after Steam's cut

from ~38k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Batman™: Arkham Knight at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies, ≈ $42.8M–$115.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Detective (6 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Superhero, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2019, and none of them 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 36 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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