How much revenue did Wonder Cave make?

$857–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wonder Cave sell?

Q: How many copies did Wonder Cave sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $857–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 18 reviews (Mixed)

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 Wonder Cave and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wonder Cave's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 302k–1.2M

best case 1.3M (The Coffin of Andy and Leyley)

Games like Wonder Cave

A typical game among these

≈ 302k–1.2M copies

≈ $2.5M–$11.2M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: The Coffin of Andy and Leyley at ≈ 982k–1.6M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 527 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological + Dark Comedy, priced around $12.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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