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How many copies did Path of Kung Fu sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 138k–224k
$569k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.4M before Steam's cut
from 6k reviews (Mostly 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 Path of Kung Fu and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Path of Kung Fu's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 532k–1.6M
best case 5.9M (Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition)
Games like Path of Kung Fu

A typical game among these

≈ 532k–1.6M copies

≈ $5.1M–$18.5M after Steam's cut

from ~26k 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: Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition at ≈ 4.5M–7.3M copies, ≈ $24.6M–$66.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 7k to 17k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Martial Arts (8 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + Martial Arts, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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 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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SteamSpy 1M–2M
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Est. copies
≈ 797k–1.3M
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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$3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.6M before Steam's cut
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Est. copies
≈ 1.5M–2.4M
1.9x vs typical
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≈ 1.1M–1.8M
1.8x vs typical
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Est. copies
≈ 4.5M–7.3M
3.1x vs typical
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Est. revenue
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$34.99
10k reviews
Mixed
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