How much revenue did Mafia III: Definitive Edition make?

$13.1M–$35.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mafia III: Definitive Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Mafia III: Definitive Edition sell?

1.6M to 2.6M copies, based on its 64k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.6M–2.6M; $13.1M–$35.2M after Steam's cut $23.8M–$54.2M before the cut; from 64k reviews (Mixed)

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 Mafia III: Definitive Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mafia III: Definitive Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.6M–6.8M

best case 133.0M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like Mafia III: Definitive Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 4.6M–6.8M copies

≈ $54.6M–$86.4M after Steam's cut

from ~111k 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.

Best case: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.4M–164.7M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 58k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16k to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (8 of 8) and Crime (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime. The breakout hits carry Mature + First-Person + Automobile Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2025, and 1 of your 7 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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