How much revenue did Who Did It? make?

$272–$735 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Who Did It? sell?

Q: How many copies did Who Did It? sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $272–$735 after Steam's cut $495–$1k before the cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Thin evidence: 5 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Who Did It? out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Who Did It?'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 436k–838k

best case 1.4M (Return of the Obra Dinn)

Games like Who Did It?

The middle of these games

≈ 436k–838k copies

≈ $2.6M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Return of the Obra Dinn at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $5.9M–$15.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 713 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mystery (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Mystery, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 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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