How much revenue did Action Arcade Wrestling make?

$19k–$51k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Action Arcade Wrestling sell?

Q: How many copies did Action Arcade Wrestling sell?

5k to 7k copies, based on its 160 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–7k; $19k–$51k after Steam's cut $35k–$79k before Steam's cut; from 160 reviews (Mostly 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 Action Arcade Wrestling and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Action Arcade Wrestling's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–58k

best case 76k ( Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage)

Games like Action Arcade Wrestling

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–58k copies

≈ $380k–$738k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Fighting (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage at ≈ 58k–94k copies, ≈ $318k–$854k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 154 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fighting (4 of 8) and Sports (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Fighter + Fighting, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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