How much revenue did Saints Row: The Third make?

$12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Saints Row: The Third sell?

Q: How many copies did Saints Row: The Third sell?

4.4M to 7.2M copies, based on its 70k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.4M–7.2M; $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut $22.0M–$50.1M before Steam's cut; from 70k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Saints Row: The Third and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Saints Row: The Third's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.7M–28.9M

best case 133.2M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like Saints Row: The Third

A typical game among these

≈ 10.7M–28.9M copies

≈ $113.6M–$518.9M after Steam's cut

from ~291k 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: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.5M–164.9M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (3 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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