How much revenue did WAVER: A Typing Adventure make?

$170–$459 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did WAVER: A Typing Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did WAVER: A Typing Adventure sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $170–$459 after Steam's cut $309–$706 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 WAVER: A Typing Adventure and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WAVER: A Typing Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–391k

best case 775k (Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+)

Games like WAVER: A Typing Adventure

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–391k copies

≈ $3k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~92 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: Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+ at ≈ 590k–959k copies, ≈ $6.4M–$17.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 3k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (8 of 8) and Rhythm (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rhythm + Anime, priced around $39.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 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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AudioSurf 2008	Est. copies ≈ 702k–1.1M 121x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MusicRhythm
Rhythmic Keyboard 2022	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $41–$109 after Steam's cut $75–$168 before Steam's cut	$5.99	1 reviews 1 user reviews	RhythmCasual
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+ 2022	Est. copies ≈ 590k–959k 260x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.4M–$17.2M after Steam's cut $11.6M–$26.5M before Steam's cut	$39.39	24k reviews Very Positive	RhythmAnime
De-coding Armageddon 2024	Est. copies ≈ 99–161 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $27–$73 after Steam's cut $49–$112 before Steam's cut	$0.99	4 reviews 4 user reviews	ActionArcade
Chimpology 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$1.99	123 reviews Very Positive	TypingArcade
Intralism 2016	Est. copies ≈ 201k–326k 53x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $165k–$444k after Steam's cut $300k–$682k before Steam's cut	$2.99	5k reviews Very Positive	MusicRhythm
Hacker's Beat 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$33k before Steam's cut	$9.99	60 reviews Mixed	TypingRhythm
Typing Tempo 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut	$4.99	55 reviews Very Positive	RhythmTyping