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Action-focused Mafia entry from Hangar 13, published by 2K in 2020. Steam shows 85,956 reviews with 87% positive sentiment, and the initial price was $39.99, giving buyers clear signals on scale, reception, and positioning.
Overview
Mafia: Definitive Edition is a 2020 Action game developed by Hangar 13 and published by 2K. On Steam it has gathered 86,030 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $40. The pairing of developer Hangar 13 with publisher 2K is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 4.6 million to 10.8 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Mafia: Definitive Edition can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
86,030
Positive
87%
Steam appid
1030840
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.04.6M to 10.8M
units (median: 7.7M)
≈ $106.1M to $247.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$40 | +15 |
| positive_87% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Mafia: Definitive Edition at roughly 4.6 million to 10.8 million copies, with a median around 7.7 million, derived from its 86,030 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $176.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $20.45Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $20.45 to $39.99, averaging $37.50 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $20.45 on 2026-04-24.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -85%$5.99 Buy
- Humble Store$39.99 Buy
- GOG.com$39.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Mafia: Definitive Edition sold?
- indielist estimates Mafia: Definitive Edition has sold between 4,645,620 and 10,839,780 units (median 7,742,700), derived from its 86,030 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Mafia: Definitive Edition?
- Mafia: Definitive Edition was developed by Hangar 13 and published by 2K.
- When was Mafia: Definitive Edition released?
- Mafia: Definitive Edition was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Mafia: Definitive Edition have on Steam?
- Mafia: Definitive Edition has 86,030 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Mafia: Definitive Edition within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Hangar 13's other releases and 2K's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Mafia: Definitive Edition sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Mafia: Definitive Edition page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.