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How many copies did The World is Your Weapon sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 20k–32k
$54k–$146k after Steam's cut $99k–$225k before Steam's cut
from 686 reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid The World is Your Weapon and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The World is Your Weapon's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.6M–8.8M
best case 10.1M (Hades)
Games like The World is Your Weapon

A typical game among these

≈ 7.6M–8.8M copies

≈ $48.4M–$84.4M after Steam's cut

from ~202k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Hades at ≈ 7.7M–12.5M copies, ≈ $52.9M–$142.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 43k reviews in their first month; the range was 17k to 129k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Rogue-like (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $25.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.
How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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SteamSpy 5M–10M
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Hades
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Est. copies
≈ 7.7M–12.5M
1.5x vs typical
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