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 Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Who Did It? and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Who Did It?'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 438k–842k

best case 1.4M (Return of the Obra Dinn)

Games like Who Did It?

A typical game among these

≈ 438k–842k copies

≈ $2.6M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Return of the Obra Dinn at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $5.9M–$15.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 712 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mystery (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Mystery, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 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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