How much revenue did Perfect Heist make?

$22k–$58k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Perfect Heist sell?

Q: How many copies did Perfect Heist sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 521 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $22k–$58k after Steam's cut $40k–$90k before Steam's cut; from 521 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 Perfect Heist and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Perfect Heist's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–5.6M

best case 56.0M (PAYDAY 2)

Games like Perfect Heist

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–5.6M copies

≈ $11.4M–$71.5M after Steam's cut

from ~50k 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: PAYDAY 2 at ≈ 42.7M–69.3M copies, ≈ $117.2M–$315.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + FPS, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2023, 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).

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PAYDAY 2 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.3M 13x 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
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