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How many copies did The Wizards - Dark Times: Brotherhood sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 13k–21k
$72k–$194k after Steam's cut $131k–$298k before Steam's cut
from 529 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 The Wizards - Dark Times: Brotherhood and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Wizards - Dark Times: Brotherhood's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–204k
best case 2.0M (Blade and Sorcery)
Games like The Wizards - Dark Times: Brotherhood

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–204k copies

≈ $263k–$4.0M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Blade and Sorcery at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $12.7M–$34.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 168 to 49k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share VR (8 of 8) and Magic (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with VR + Swordplay, priced around $30.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 2 of the 8 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 38 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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