How much revenue did Wobbly Life make?

$6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wobbly Life sell?

Q: How many copies did Wobbly Life sell?

899k to 1.5M copies, based on its 36k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 899k–1.5M; $6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's cut $11.2M–$25.5M before Steam's cut; from 36k 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 Wobbly Life and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wobbly Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 20.5M–30.5M

best case 56.0M (Rust)

Games like Wobbly Life

A typical game among these

≈ 20.5M–30.5M copies

≈ $222.9M–$423.7M after Steam's cut

from ~421k 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: Rust at ≈ 42.7M–69.3M copies, ≈ $469.3M–$1261.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (8 of 8) and Open World Survival Craft (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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 79 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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