How much revenue did Thief Town make?

$21k–$57k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Thief Town sell?

Q: How many copies did Thief Town sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 172 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $38k–$88k before the cut; from 172 reviews (Mostly 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 Thief Town out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Thief Town's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 71k–217k

best case 34.6M (Red Dead Redemption 2)

Games like Thief Town

The middle of these games

≈ 71k–217k copies

≈ $272k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Red Dead Redemption 2 at ≈ 26.4M–42.9M copies, ≈ $435.5M–$1170.8M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Stealth (7 of 8) and Western (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Story Rich, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Adventure + Realistic; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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