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How many copies did The Spy Who Shrunk Me sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–6k
$10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$40k before Steam's cut
from 122 reviews (Mostly 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 The Spy Who Shrunk Me and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Spy Who Shrunk Me's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.4M–9.7M
best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like The Spy Who Shrunk Me

A typical game among these

≈ 5.4M–9.7M copies

≈ $47.8M–$84.7M after Steam's cut

from ~125k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share FPS (6 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Survival + Battle Royale; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2020, 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
2017
Est. copies
≈ 95.8M–155.7M
22x vs typical
SteamSpy 100M–200M
Est. revenue
Free
Free
2.8M reviews
Mixed
SurvivalShooter
Metro 2033 Redux
2014
Est. copies
≈ 8.0M–12.9M
SteamSpy 5M–10M
Est. revenue
$43.8M–$117.8M after Steam's cut $79.6M–$181.2M before Steam's cut
$19.99
142k reviews
Very Positive
Post-apocalypticFPS
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands
2017
Est. copies
≈ 4.0M–6.4M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$54.5M–$146.6M after Steam's cut $99.2M–$225.6M before Steam's cut
$49.99
115k reviews
Mostly Positive
Open WorldShooter
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
Far Cry 3
2012
Est. copies
≈ 8.5M–13.8M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$46.6M–$125.4M after Steam's cut $84.8M–$192.9M before Steam's cut
$19.99
134k reviews
Very Positive
Open WorldFPS
Metro Exodus
2020
Est. copies
≈ 3.4M–5.5M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$27.9M–$74.9M after Steam's cut $50.7M–$115.3M before Steam's cut
$29.99
136k reviews
Very Positive
Post-apocalypticFPS
PAYDAY 2
2013
Est. copies
≈ 42.7M–69.3M
5.4x vs typical
SteamSpy 20M–50M
Est. revenue
$117.2M–$315.1M after Steam's cut $213.1M–$484.7M before Steam's cut
$9.99
675k reviews
Very Positive
Co-opAction
Metro: Last Light Redux
2014
Est. copies
≈ 4.6M–7.5M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$25.3M–$67.9M after Steam's cut $45.9M–$104.5M before Steam's cut
$19.99
82k reviews
Very Positive
Post-apocalypticFPS

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