How much revenue did SpyParty make?

$338k–$908k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SpyParty sell?

Q: How many copies did SpyParty sell?

49k to 80k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 49k–80k; $338k–$908k after Steam's cut $614k–$1.4M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 SpyParty and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SpyParty's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 152k–336k

best case 1.7M (Hacknet)

Games like SpyParty

A typical game among these

≈ 152k–336k copies

≈ $942k–$6.5M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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 Social Deduction (3 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: Hacknet at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $3.5M–$9.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 967 reviews in their first month; the range was 47 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Social Deduction (3 of 8) and Heist (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hacking + Simulation, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, 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 61 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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Hello Neighbor 2 Alpha 1.5 2020	Est. copies ≈ 155k–253k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	6k reviews Very Positive	AdventurePuzzle
Perfect Heist 2 2021	Est. copies ≈ 118k–192k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $325k–$874k after Steam's cut $591k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	5k reviews Very Positive	ActionStealth
Hacknet 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $3.5M–$9.4M after Steam's cut $6.4M–$14.5M before Steam's cut	$9.99	26k reviews Very Positive	HackingSimulation
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Deceive Inc. 2023	Est. copies ≈ 195k–318k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Social DeductionHeist
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