How much revenue did Contractors make?

$783k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Contractors sell?

Q: How many copies did Contractors sell?

142k to 231k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 142k–231k; $783k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before the cut; from 5k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Contractors out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Contractors's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 706k–1.4M

best case 5.0M (Resident Evil Village)

Games like Contractors

The middle of these games

≈ 706k–1.4M copies

≈ $10.9M–$15.2M after Steam's cut

from ~31k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Resident Evil Village at ≈ 3.8M–6.2M copies, ≈ $41.9M–$112.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (7 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Survival Horror + Horror + Gore; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 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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