How many copies did Secret World Legends sell?

319k to 518k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Secret World Legends make?

Secret World Legends is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Secret World Legends?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 319k–518k; from 9k reviews (Mixed)

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 Secret World Legends and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Secret World Legends's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.0M–14.8M

best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Secret World Legends

A typical game among these

≈ 4.0M–14.8M copies

≈ $47.3M–$85.7M after Steam's cut

from ~163k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Dark Fantasy (3 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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the range was 89 to 102k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dark Fantasy (3 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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