How much revenue did Jack & Detectives - A Silent Social Detection Game - make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Jack & Detectives - A Silent Social Detection Game - sell?

Q: How many copies did Jack & Detectives - A Silent Social Detection Game - sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 54 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 54 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 Jack & Detectives - A Silent Social Detection Game - and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Jack & Detectives - A Silent Social Detection Game -'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.6M–19.0M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Jack & Detectives - A Silent Social Detection Game -

A typical game among these

≈ 7.6M–19.0M copies

≈ $91.9M–$139.4M after Steam's cut

from ~249k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is 3D Platformer (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 63k reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (4 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 3 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 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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