How much revenue did The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition make?

$1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition sell?

395k to 641k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 395k–641k; $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before Steam's cut; from 6k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–11.8M

best case 16.5M (Portal)

Games like The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 2.0M–11.8M copies

≈ $20.0M–$39.5M after Steam's cut

from ~72k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Comedy (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Portal at ≈ 12.6M–20.5M copies, ≈ $34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (4 of 8) and Classic (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2020, 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 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.6M–20.5M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut $63.0M–$143.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	199k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut $19.5M–$44.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	45k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectiveVisual Novel
Bully: Scholarship Edition 2008	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $11.0M–$29.6M after Steam's cut $20.0M–$45.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	42k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 2008	Est. copies ≈ 5.3M–8.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	83k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition 2009	Est. copies ≈ 9.9M–16.1M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.6M–$36.5M after Steam's cut $24.7M–$56.1M before Steam's cut	$4.99	156k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseZombies
Shakes and Fidget 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	37k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayRPG
POSTAL 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 8.7M–14.2M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $24.0M–$64.5M after Steam's cut $43.6M–$99.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	138k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ViolentDark Humor
The Henry Stickmin Collection 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.1M–$16.4M after Steam's cut $11.1M–$25.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	60k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FunnyMultiple Endings