How much revenue did Captain Cook: Word Puzzle make?

$197–$531 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Captain Cook: Word Puzzle sell?

Q: How many copies did Captain Cook: Word Puzzle sell?

144 to 234 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 144–234; $197–$531 after Steam's cut $359–$817 before Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Captain Cook: Word Puzzle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Captain Cook: Word Puzzle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 447–160k

best case 862k (Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game)

Games like Captain Cook: Word Puzzle

A typical game among these

≈ 447–160k copies

≈ $420–$117k after Steam's cut

from ~589 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game at ≈ 657k–1.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 3k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Clicker (5 of 8) and Education (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Clicker.
When they shipped: Only 3 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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