How much revenue did Word Game make?

$1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Word Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Word Game sell?

160k to 260k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 160k–260k; $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before Steam's cut; from 6k reviews (Very 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 Word Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Word Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 171k–243k

best case 668k (Her Story)

Games like Word Game

A typical game among these

≈ 171k–243k copies

≈ $907k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Her Story at ≈ 509k–827k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 761 reviews in their first month; the range was 170 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choose Your Own Adventure (6 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Investigation + Typing, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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