How much revenue did The Wicked Days make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Wicked Days sell?

Q: How many copies did The Wicked Days sell?

818 to 1k copies, based on its 33 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 818–1k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before Steam's cut; from 33 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 Wicked Days and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Wicked Days's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–100k

best case 507k (Yet Another Zombie Survivors)

Games like The Wicked Days

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–100k copies

≈ $27k–$592k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Best case: Yet Another Zombie Survivors at ≈ 386k–628k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 515 reviews in their first month; the range was 143 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (7 of 8) and Zombies (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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Yet Another Zombie Survivors 2026	Est. copies ≈ 386k–628k 9.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	16k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessAction Roguelike
FatalZone 2024	Est. copies ≈ 56k–92k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $109k–$292k after Steam's cut $197k–$449k before Steam's cut	$6.99	2k reviews Mixed	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
Astro Looter: Survivor 2024	Est. copies ≈ 11k–17k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$24k before Steam's cut	$1.99	432 reviews Mixed	Bullet HellArena Shooter
Section 13 2025	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $125k–$335k after Steam's cut $227k–$516k before Steam's cut	$19.99	915 reviews Mostly Positive	DarkTop-Down Shooter
West of Dead 2020	Est. copies ≈ 55k–90k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $304k–$817k after Steam's cut $553k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Replay ValueRogue-like
ZCREW 2022	Est. copies ≈ 9k–15k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$71k before Steam's cut	$6.99	362 reviews Mixed	Action-AdventureZombies
Apocalypse Party 2023	Est. copies ≈ 135k–219k 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $371k–$998k after Steam's cut $675k–$1.5M before Steam's cut	$9.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	CasualSingleplayer
FALL 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut	$4.99	159 reviews Very Positive	ZombiesPost-apocalyptic