How big is the Stealth market on Steam?

A typical Stealth game sells under 20k copies, and the top decile 200k to 500k, based on the 2,502 games SteamSpy lists for the tag (its visible subset). Labeled estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

The realistic ceiling for Stealth games

Two honest views of what Stealth games do on Steam: the whole market from a systematic sample, and the games gathered here. Kept separate on purpose.

The market

A typical game sells

≈ under 20k copies

under $90k after Steam's cut, est.

The top decile

≈ 200k–500k copies

$902k–$2.3M after Steam's cut, est.

Half the reviews in SteamSpy's sample of 2,502 Stealth games sit with 16 of them.

Based on the 2,502 Stealth games SteamSpy lists, its visible subset, not the whole market. Games are grouped by the tags players give them, which are applied loosely, so a genre's edges are fuzzy. Owners are SteamSpy estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

The Stealth games gathered on wishvane

Across the 202 Stealth games compared here, a typical one runs ≈ 80k–249k copies (est.), with PAYDAY 2 the biggest comparable game at ≈ 35.0M–56.9M. A small, self-selected sample, not the whole market.

The Stealth games gathered here span 2006 to 2025, a long track record.
Across the Stealth games gathered here the median price is $19.99, and the biggest charge more, around $25.

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