Hitman: Absolution

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Hitman: Absolution

Short description

The original assassin is back! Betrayed by the Agency and hunted by the police, Agent 47 finds himself pursuing redemption in a corrupt and twisted world.

Developer
IO Interactive A/S
Publisher
IO Interactive A/S
Release
Mon, Nov 19, 2012
Price
$19.99
Reviews
50,177
Positive
93%
Followers
72,820
Owners (estimated)
2M – 5M
Concurrent players
618
Genres
Action
Features
Steam Trading Cards, Partial Controller Support
Tags
Stealth Action Third Person Assassin Singleplayer Third-Person Shooter Tactical Shooter Replay Value Crime Multiplayer Story Rich Cinematic Difficult Atmospheric Adventure Strategy Score Attack Linear Controller
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$45.1msomewhere between $40m and $80.2m · roughly 2M–4M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $19.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

75 data points since Jul 27, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$44.3m → ~$45.1m
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Reviews 49,281 → 50,177
Followers 72,166 → 72,820
Concurrent players 618 → 618
Price $1.99 → $19.99
Positive reviews 93.4% → 93.5%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 343 further data points reach back to Sep 14, 2012 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

The dashed line marks Jul 28, 2026, when steamlense started measuring. Everything to its left was backfilled from public sources — monthly review counts from Steam, price changes from IsThereAnyDeal, monthly player averages from SteamCharts. Those are monthly figures, so the curve is coarser there — one point a month instead of one a day.

Lowest recorded price: $1.99 on Jul 22, 2024.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Hitman: Absolution is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Stealth + Action + Third Person

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Similar games that found an audience

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Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
HITMAN HITMAN Feral Interactive (Mac) 36 titles +2 5 − Third-Person Shooter + Tactical n/a 23,731 82% Fri, Mar 11, 2016 n/a
Hitman: Codename 47 Hitman: Codename 47 IO Interactive A/S 8 titles 5 − Third-Person Shooter + Classic $7.99 4,221 70% Thu, Mar 15, 2007 $1.5m
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Hitman 2: Silent Assassin Hitman 2: Silent Assassin IO Interactive A/S 8 titles 5 − Third-Person Shooter + Classic $8.99 3,720 81% Thu, Mar 15, 2007 $1.5m
$669k – $18m
Hitman: Contracts Hitman: Contracts IO Interactive A/S 8 titles 5 − Third-Person Shooter + Classic $8.99 3,059 87% Tue, Jan 21, 2014 $1.2m
$550k – $9m
Batman: Arkham Knight Batman: Arkham Knight Rocksteady Studios 4 titles 4 − Assassin − Third-Person Shooter + Open World + Superhero $19.99
$3.99
80%
112,047 93% Tue, Jun 23, 2015 $100m
$44.8m – $100m

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