How much revenue did South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ make?

$34.0M–$91.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ sell?

Q: How many copies did South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ sell?

4.1M to 6.7M copies, based on its 74k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.1M–6.7M; $34.0M–$91.4M after Steam's cut $61.8M–$140.6M before Steam's cut; from 74k 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 South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including South Park™: The Stick of Truth™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 874k–1.5M

best case 11.5M (POSTAL 2)

Games like South Park™: The Stick of Truth™

A typical game among these

≈ 874k–1.5M copies

≈ $5.8M–$11.9M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: POSTAL 2 at ≈ 8.7M–14.2M copies, ≈ $24.0M–$64.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dark Humor (7 of 8) and Comedy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Violent + Dark Humor, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Violent + Open World + Sandbox; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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 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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