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How many copies did POSTAL 4: No Regerts sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 335k–544k
$1.8M–$5.0M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.6M before Steam's cut
from 14k reviews (Mixed)

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 POSTAL 4: No Regerts and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including POSTAL 4: No Regerts's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 596k–1.5M
best case 7.2M (Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition)
Games like POSTAL 4: No Regerts

A typical game among these

≈ 596k–1.5M copies

≈ $9.2M–$16.4M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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.

Best case: Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition at ≈ 5.5M–8.9M copies, ≈ $90.1M–$242.1M 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 42k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 72k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Gore (8 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Zombies, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Horror + Zombies + Survival Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 to 2022, 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 52 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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