The Masterplan

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The Masterplan

Short description

Tactical squad-based heist game set in 1970s. The 2D top-down view gives you a great overview of what's happening at any given moment, allowing you to be a real criminal mastermind. Can you pull off the greatest heist in the history of mankind?

Developer
Shark Punch
Publisher
Shark Punch
Release
Thu, Jun 04, 2015
Price
$19.99
Reviews
374
Positive
62%
Followers
10,624
Owners (estimated)
50K – 100K
Concurrent players
n/a
Genres
Action, Indie, Strategy
Features
Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop
Tags
Heist Action Strategy Indie Top-Down Tactical Crime Stealth Singleplayer 2D Great Soundtrack Retro Loot Puzzle Early Access Multiplayer
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$297ksomewhere between $132k and $1.8m · roughly 7K–100K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $17.62, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $19.99 launch price. That is 12% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

11 data points since Aug 10, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$296k → ~$297k
Reviews 374 → 374
Followers 10,631 → 10,624
Price $19.99 → $19.99
Positive reviews 62.3% → 62.3%

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. 149 further data points reach back to Sep 1, 2014 — 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.

Lowest recorded price: $1.99 on Dec 22, 2016.

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

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with The Masterplan. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Door Kickers Door Kickers KillHouse Games 3 titles 5 − Heist + Simulation $19.99 8,037 94% Mon, Oct 20, 2014 $8.9m
$8.9m – $11.4m
GemCraft - Chasing Shadows GemCraft - Chasing Shadows Game in a Bottle 3 titles 4 − Heist − Tactical + Tower Defense + Singleplayer $9.99 3,639 95% Thu, Apr 30, 2015 $1.8m
$1.8m – $2.6m
Satellite Reign Satellite Reign 5 Lives Studios 2 titles 4 − Heist − Top-Down + Cyberpunk + Sci-fi $29.99
$2.99
90%
best price ever
2,607 76% Thu, Aug 27, 2015 $3.3m
$1.4m – $55.5m
Space Pirates and Zombies Space Pirates and Zombies MinMax Games Ltd. 5 titles 4 − Heist − Tactical + Space + Sci-fi $9.99 2,224 92% Mon, Aug 15, 2011 $880k
$391k – $8.8m
Survivor Squad Survivor Squad Endless Loop Studios 10 titles 4 − Heist − Tactical + Zombies + Survival $2.99 542 67% Wed, Jan 21, 2015 $64k
$29k – $528k

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