How much revenue did Assassin's Creed® Unity make?

$39.7M–$106.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Assassin's Creed® Unity sell?

Q: How many copies did Assassin's Creed® Unity sell?

4.8M to 7.8M copies, based on its 86k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.8M–7.8M; $39.7M–$106.8M after Steam's cut $72.2M–$164.3M before Steam's cut; from 86k reviews (Mostly 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 Assassin's Creed® Unity and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Assassin's Creed® Unity's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.0M–6.8M

best case 7.5M (Assassin's Creed® Odyssey)

Games like Assassin's Creed® Unity

A typical game among these

≈ 4.0M–6.8M copies

≈ $40.3M–$115.3M after Steam's cut

from ~88k 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: Assassin's Creed® Odyssey at ≈ 5.7M–9.3M copies, ≈ $94.8M–$254.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Assassin (7 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Historical, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2018, and none of them 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 38 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $21.4M–$57.7M after Steam's cut $39.0M–$88.7M before Steam's cut	$39.99	79k reviews Very Positive	PiratesOpen World
Assassin's Creed 2 2010	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.4M–$57.5M after Steam's cut $38.9M–$88.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	62k reviews Very Positive	ActionOpen World
Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood 2011	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M too small to compare SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.3M–$25.0M after Steam's cut $16.9M–$38.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	27k reviews Very Positive	ActionOpen World
Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ 2014	Est. copies ≈ 5.5M–8.9M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $30.0M–$80.6M after Steam's cut $54.5M–$124.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	97k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
Assassin's Creed® Odyssey 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.7M–9.3M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $94.8M–$254.9M after Steam's cut $172.4M–$392.1M before Steam's cut	$59.99	189k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldRPG
Assassin's Creed® Origins 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $73.3M–$197.2M after Steam's cut $133.3M–$303.3M before Steam's cut	$59.99	129k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAssassin
Assassin's Creed® Syndicate 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M too small to compare SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.4M–$35.9M after Steam's cut $24.3M–$55.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	33k reviews Very Positive	AssassinOpen World
Dishonored 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.0M–$61.8M after Steam's cut $41.8M–$95.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	67k reviews Very Positive	StealthFirst-Person