How big is the Stealth market on Steam?

A typical Stealth game sells 725k to 1.2M copies, and the top decile 3.0M to 4.9M, based on the 167 games SteamSpy lists for the tag (its visible subset). Labeled estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

What Stealth games usually sell on Steam

What Stealth games sell on Steam, shown two ways: a SteamSpy sample of the whole genre, and the Stealth games people have looked up here.

The whole genre, from SteamSpy's sample

A typical game sells

≈ 725k–1.2M copies

$4.0M–$10.7M after Steam's cut, est.

The top decile

≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies

$16.7M–$44.9M after Steam's cut, est.

Half the reviews in SteamSpy's sample of 167 Stealth games sit with 10 of them.

Based on the 167 Stealth games SteamSpy listed on November 15, 2026. It misses the games that barely sold, so these figures flatter the genre. Games are grouped by the tags players give them, which are applied loosely, so a genre's edges are fuzzy. Copies are SteamSpy estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

The Stealth games gathered on wishvane

Across the 353 Stealth games compared here, a typical one sells ≈ 11k–152k copies (est.), with the biggest of them, PAYDAY 2, at ≈ 42.7M–69.3M. These are the games people chose to compare, not a sample of the genre, so they run far larger than SteamSpy's figures above.

The Stealth games gathered here span 2006 to 2026, and 46 of them shipped in the last two years.
The biggest Stealth games here share nothing more specific than the genre; individually they lead with Open World and Parkour.
Across the Stealth games gathered here a typical price is $12.99, and the biggest charge more, around $22.

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