How much revenue did Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT make?

$39.3M–$105.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT sell?

Q: How many copies did Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT sell?

2.4M to 3.9M copies, based on its 96k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.4M–3.9M; $39.3M–$105.5M after Steam's cut $71.4M–$162.4M before the cut; from 96k reviews (Very 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 Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26.7M–36.1M

best case 40.5M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT

The middle of these games

≈ 26.7M–36.1M copies

≈ $194.0M–$754.7M after Steam's cut

from ~784k 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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.9M–50.1M copies, ≈ $42.3M–$113.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 8) and Story Rich (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 61 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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