Genre ActionReleased Sep 15, 2009

Resident Evil 5

Developed and published by Capcom
Estimated lifetime revenue
$9.54M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$6.68M
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
968.2K
≈ 14 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 68,580 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
68,580
Very Positive87% positive
Playing now
1,265
30-day peak 1,440 · low 805
New reviews, last 30 days
+1,029
≈ 34 a day since Sep 14

History

Sep 14 – Oct 14

68.8K68.4K68.0K67.6K
Sep 14Sep 29Oct 14

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Action →

Against the 120 most-reviewed Action games on Steam

Outearns 20% of them — in the bottom quarter of the group.

Median
$59.63M
352,132 reviews
Top 10% start at
$203.80M
This game
$9.54M
Fewest reviews of the group

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

This game is a port of the Games for Windows - Live version that was released in 2009. If you buy the Untold Stories Bundle here on Steam, it will be the same as upgrading to Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition.

Developer
Capcom
Publisher
Capcom
Genre
Action
Released
Sep 15, 2009
Steam app ID
21690
Data updated
Oct 9, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.