How much revenue did Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders make?

$530k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders sell?

Q: How many copies did Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders sell?

129k to 209k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 129k–209k; $530k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $964k–$2.2M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Very 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 Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.6M

best case 1.7M (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy)

Games like Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies

≈ $12.4M–$19.6M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Detective (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Visual Novel, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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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