How much revenue did Thief: Deadly Shadows make?

$407k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Thief: Deadly Shadows sell?

Q: How many copies did Thief: Deadly Shadows sell?

165k to 267k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 165k–267k; $407k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $740k–$1.7M before the cut; from 3k 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 Thief: Deadly Shadows out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Thief: Deadly Shadows's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.4M–18.2M

best case 55.9M (PAYDAY 2)

Games like Thief: Deadly Shadows

The middle of these games

≈ 10.4M–18.2M copies

≈ $63.2M–$118.1M after Steam's cut

from ~228k 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: PAYDAY 2 at ≈ 42.6M–69.3M copies, ≈ $117.1M–$314.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 67k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14k to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (6 of 8) and Co-op (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + FPS, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, and 2 of your 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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