How much revenue did The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood make?

$786k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood sell?

Q: How many copies did The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood sell?

159k to 258k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 159k–258k; $786k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M 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 The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–8k

best case 60k (Along the Edge)

Games like The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–8k copies

≈ $24k–$39k after Steam's cut

from ~251 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Along the Edge at ≈ 46k–74k copies, ≈ $175k–$471k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 50 reviews in their first month; the range was 28 to 77.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (7 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hidden Object + Interactive Fiction, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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