How much revenue did Ace Attorney Investigations Collection make?

$1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ace Attorney Investigations Collection sell?

Q: How many copies did Ace Attorney Investigations Collection sell?

121k to 196k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 121k–196k; $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Ace Attorney Investigations Collection and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ace Attorney Investigations Collection's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 619k–664k

best case 5.3M (Content Warning)

Games like Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

A typical game among these

≈ 619k–664k copies

≈ $2.0M–$4.2M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Content Warning at ≈ 4.1M–6.6M copies, ≈ $8.9M–$24.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 724 to 55k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mystery (5 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Escape Room, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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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The Test 2020	Est. copies ≈ 499k–810k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $273k–$734k after Steam's cut $496k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$1.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choose Your Own AdventureSimulation
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Content Warning 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.6M 8.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$24.0M after Steam's cut $16.2M–$36.9M before Steam's cut	$7.99	164k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpHorror
Heavy Rain 2020	Est. copies ≈ 788k–1.3M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.7M after Steam's cut $7.9M–$17.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	32k reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterStory Rich
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