How much revenue did Dishonored make?

$15.3M–$41.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dishonored sell?

Q: How many copies did Dishonored sell?

5.6M to 9.1M copies, based on its 88k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.6M–9.1M; $15.3M–$41.3M after Steam's cut $27.9M–$63.5M before Steam's cut; from 88k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Dishonored and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dishonored's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 710k–1.3M

best case 3.7M (Dishonored 2)

Games like Dishonored

A typical game among these

≈ 710k–1.3M copies

≈ $6.5M–$12.1M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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: Dishonored 2 at ≈ 2.8M–4.5M copies, ≈ $23.0M–$61.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Stealth (6 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Stealth + First-Person, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Atmospheric + Assassin; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2021, 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 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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DEATHLOOP 2021	Est. copies ≈ 756k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.5M–$33.5M after Steam's cut $22.7M–$51.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	30k reviews Mostly Positive	FPSAction
Cruelty Squad 2021	Est. copies ≈ 621k–1.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CapitalismSurreal
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Hitman: Blood Money 2007	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.5M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	16k reviews Very Positive	StealthAction
War Robots 2018	Est. copies ≈ 943k–1.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	31k reviews Mixed	RobotsMechs
Dishonored 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.0M–$61.8M after Steam's cut $41.8M–$95.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	67k reviews Very Positive	StealthFirst-Person
Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 461k–749k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's cut $6.9M–$15.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	13k reviews Very Positive	StealthAction
Thief 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut $13.5M–$30.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	24k reviews Mostly Positive	StealthAction