How much revenue did Mafia II (Classic) make?

$30.6M–$82.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mafia II (Classic) sell?

Q: How many copies did Mafia II (Classic) sell?

3.7M to 6.0M copies, based on its 59k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3.7M–6.0M; $30.6M–$82.3M after Steam's cut $55.6M–$126.6M before the cut; from 59k reviews (Very 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 Mafia II (Classic) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mafia II (Classic)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–4.2M

best case 3.6M (Mafia: Definitive Edition)

Games like Mafia II (Classic)

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–4.2M copies

≈ $23.6M–$45.1M after Steam's cut

from ~71k 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: Mafia: Definitive Edition at ≈ 2.8M–4.5M copies, ≈ $30.3M–$81.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 32k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Crime (8 of 8) and Open World (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2020, 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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