How much revenue did The Slater make?

$88k–$235k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Slater sell?

Q: How many copies did The Slater sell?

32k to 52k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 32k–52k; $88k–$235k after Steam's cut $159k–$362k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Slater and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Slater's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 589k–2.1M

best case 3.0M (HITMAN™ 2)

Games like The Slater

A typical game among these

≈ 589k–2.1M copies

≈ $6.1M–$17.3M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: HITMAN™ 2 at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Stealth (8 of 8) and Assassin (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Stealth + Assassin.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
HITMAN™ 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	75k reviews Very Positive	StealthAssassin
HITMAN World of Assassination 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $14.2M–$38.3M after Steam's cut $25.9M–$58.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	70k reviews Very Positive	StealthAssassin
Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 461k–749k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's cut $6.9M–$15.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	13k reviews Very Positive	StealthAction
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $17.6M–$47.3M after Steam's cut $32.0M–$72.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	38k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StealthStrategy
Desperados III 2020	Est. copies ≈ 413k–671k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.2M after Steam's cut $8.3M–$18.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Real Time TacticsStrategy
Aragami 2016	Est. copies ≈ 541k–878k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.0M–$8.0M after Steam's cut $5.4M–$12.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	13k reviews Very Positive	StealthNinja
Mark of the Ninja: Remastered 2018	Est. copies ≈ 211k–343k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StealthNinja
Styx: Master of Shadows 2014	Est. copies ≈ 657k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.6M–$9.7M after Steam's cut $6.6M–$14.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	12k reviews Very Positive	StealthSingleplayer