How big is Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist?

Q: How many copies did Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist sell?

497k to 808k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 497k–808k; from 10k 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 Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–3.5M

best case 103.9M (Team Fortress 2)

Games like Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist

A typical game among these

≈ 2.7M–3.5M copies

≈ $20.3M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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 First-Person (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: Team Fortress 2 at ≈ 79.1M–128.6M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Anime, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2025, 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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