How much revenue did Witch Strandings make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Witch Strandings sell?

Q: How many copies did Witch Strandings sell?

992 to 2k copies, based on its 40 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 992–2k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $6k–$15k before Steam's cut; from 40 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 Witch Strandings and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Witch Strandings's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 138k–198k

best case 428k (Catherine Classic)

Games like Witch Strandings

A typical game among these

≈ 138k–198k copies

≈ $751k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Catherine Classic at ≈ 326k–530k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M 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 671 reviews in their first month; the range was 221 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sexual Content + Anime, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Sexual Content + Anime + Mature; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 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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