How much revenue did South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ make?

$9.6M–$25.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ sell?

Q: How many copies did South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ sell?

1.2M to 1.9M copies, based on its 34k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–1.9M; $9.6M–$25.7M after Steam's cut $17.4M–$39.5M before Steam's cut; from 34k 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 South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 782k–2.8M

best case 25.9M (Borderlands 2)

Games like South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™

A typical game among these

≈ 782k–2.8M copies

≈ $6.3M–$18.2M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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 Co-op (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: Borderlands 2 at ≈ 19.8M–32.1M copies, ≈ $217.3M–$584.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 29k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (3 of 8) and Comedy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Loot + Shooter, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Looter Shooter + Loot; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 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 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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Borderlands 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 19.8M–32.1M 9.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $217.3M–$584.2M after Steam's cut $395.1M–$898.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	313k reviews Very Positive	LootShooter
Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced 2023	Est. copies ≈ 693k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.7M–$15.4M after Steam's cut $10.4M–$23.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	28k reviews Very Positive	FPS Co-op
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Borderlands Game of the Year 2023	Est. copies ≈ 791k–1.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.5M–$17.5M after Steam's cut $11.9M–$27.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	32k reviews Very Positive	Looter ShooterFPS