How much revenue did Saints Row make?

$1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Saints Row sell?

Q: How many copies did Saints Row sell?

221k to 358k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 221k–358k; $1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.5M before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 Saints Row and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Saints Row's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.9M–13.3M

best case 37.7M (ELDEN RING)

Games like Saints Row

A typical game among these

≈ 6.9M–13.3M copies

≈ $108.0M–$207.5M after Steam's cut

from ~308k 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: ELDEN RING at ≈ 28.7M–46.6M copies, ≈ $473.6M–$1273.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 149k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 347k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (6 of 8) and Open World (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Open World, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, and 2 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 38 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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