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How many copies did Unrestricted Pest Control sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 446–725
$122–$326 after Steam's cut $221–$502 before Steam's cut
from 18 reviews (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 Unrestricted Pest Control and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Unrestricted Pest Control's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.4M–18.0M
best case 39.5M (Black Myth: Wukong)
Games like Unrestricted Pest Control

A typical game among these

≈ 7.4M–18.0M copies

≈ $91.3M–$169.8M after Steam's cut

from ~220k 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: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.1M–48.9M copies, ≈ $496.2M–$1334.2M 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 153k reviews in their first month; the range was 72k to 836k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Mythology + Action RPG + RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 1998 to 2025, 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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