How much revenue did Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist make?

$7.5M–$20.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist sell?

Q: How many copies did Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist sell?

1.4M to 2.2M copies, based on its 22k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.4M–2.2M; $7.5M–$20.2M after Steam's cut $13.7M–$31.1M before the cut; from 22k reviews (Mostly 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 Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–5.3M

best case 5.2M (Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands)

Games like Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist

The middle of these games

≈ 2.9M–5.3M copies

≈ $40.8M–$92.9M after Steam's cut

from ~76k 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: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands at ≈ 3.9M–6.4M copies, ≈ $54.0M–$145.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Stealth (7 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Shooter, priced around $50.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. 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 38 for the most recent game here to about 70 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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