wishvane Look up any Steam game for an honest estimate of its copies and revenue, then see the realistic range its genre produces, before you spend months building.
Building your own game? Size up your concept against its genre before you spend months on it.
How it did, and what its 4 similar games say about the genre.
See the Deckbuilder roguelite report →How it did, and what its 4 similar games say about the genre.
See the Roguelike deckbuilder report →How it did, and what its 4 similar games say about the genre.
See the Roguelite action report →How it did, and what its 4 similar games say about the genre.
See the Horde survival report →How it did, and what its 4 similar games say about the genre.
See the Twin-stick shooter report →How it did, and what its 4 similar games say about the genre.
See the FPS roguelite report →The realistic ceiling for a whole genre: the market from a systematic sample, and the games gathered here.
What we learn building wishvane, in public: the numbers, the mistakes, and what the data actually says.
Two public sources, both credited. Steam provides a game's price, release date, and review counts; SteamSpy (used under CC BY-NC) adds its owner estimates and the by-tag samples behind the genre reports. wishvane turns those into copy and revenue estimates. It never uses private or scraped data, and it never shows a number it cannot source.
They are estimates, and wishvane labels every one. Copies come from a review-count proxy, so read them as a range, not a receipt. Revenue is shakier still: it multiplies the copies estimate by list price and takes Steam's roughly 30% cut, so it stacks one estimate on top of another. Good for sizing a genre's realistic ceiling, not a substitute for a game's actual sales figures.
No, and anyone who claims they can is guessing. wishvane tells you what a genre realistically produces: what a typical game does, what the top of the genre does, and where the money tends to land. Whether yours beats that comes down to your game, your marketing, and some luck. It sizes the opportunity; it does not predict your outcome.
It is free, and no. You can look up any game or genre and size up your own concept without signing up. Your comparison lives in your browser, so you can come back to it, and share it with a link, without an account.