How much revenue did Staffer Reborn make?

$34k–$90k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Staffer Reborn sell?

Q: How many copies did Staffer Reborn sell?

24k to 40k copies, based on its 986 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–40k; $34k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$139k before the cut; from 986 reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 618k–664k

best case 3.1M (L.A. Noire)

Games like Staffer Reborn

The middle of these games

≈ 618k–664k copies

≈ $2.0M–$4.2M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: L.A. Noire at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $12.8M–$34.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 724 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mystery (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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 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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