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How many copies did Assassin's Creed® Origins sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4.4M–7.2M
$73.3M–$197.2M after Steam's cut $133.3M–$303.3M before Steam's cut
from 129k 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 Assassin's Creed® Origins and predicted how it would do from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including Assassin's Creed® Origins's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.2M–12.0M
best case 13.5M (Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition)
Games like Assassin's Creed® Origins

A typical game among these

≈ 7.2M–12.0M copies

≈ $43.5M–$152.1M after Steam's cut

from ~143k 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 6 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition at ≈ 10.3M–16.7M copies, ≈ $169.4M–$455.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Stealth (4 of 6) and Third Person (4 of 6).
The winners
Winners here lead with Souls-like + Ninja, priced around $60.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2000 to 2019, 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 36 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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Assassin's Creed® Odyssey
2018
Est. copies
≈ 5.7M–9.3M
SteamSpy 5M–10M
Est. revenue
$94.8M–$254.9M after Steam's cut $172.4M–$392.1M before Steam's cut
$59.99
189k reviews
Very Positive
Open WorldRPG
Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
2014
Est. copies
≈ 5.5M–8.9M
SteamSpy 5M–10M
Est. revenue
$30.0M–$80.6M after Steam's cut $54.5M–$124.0M before Steam's cut
$19.99
97k reviews
Very Positive
Open WorldAction
Dishonored
2012
Est. copies
≈ 5.6M–9.1M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$15.3M–$41.3M after Steam's cut $27.9M–$63.5M before Steam's cut
$9.99
88k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
StealthFirst-Person
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
2019
Est. copies
≈ 10.3M–16.7M
2.5x vs typical
SteamSpy 10M–20M
Est. revenue
$169.4M–$455.5M after Steam's cut $308.0M–$700.8M before Steam's cut
$59.99
357k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
Souls-likeDifficult
Counter-Strike
2000
Est. copies
≈ 16.6M–26.9M
1.8x vs typical
SteamSpy 10M–20M
Est. revenue
$45.5M–$122.3M after Steam's cut $82.7M–$188.1M before Steam's cut
$9.99
262k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
ActionFPS
Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™
unreleased
Est. copies
≈ 1.9M–3.2M
SteamSpy 5M–10M
Est. revenue
$21.4M–$57.7M after Steam's cut $39.0M–$88.7M before Steam's cut
$39.99
79k reviews
Very Positive
PiratesOpen World

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