How many copies did Word Game: Episode 0 sell?

113k to 183k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Word Game: Episode 0 make?

Word Game: Episode 0 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Word Game: Episode 0?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 113k–183k; from 5k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Word Game: Episode 0 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Word Game: Episode 0's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 367k–677k

best case 1.2M (POLYGON)

Games like Word Game: Episode 0

A typical game among these

≈ 367k–677k copies

≈ $876k–$1.7M 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rogue-lite (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: POLYGON at ≈ 918k–1.5M copies. 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 678 reviews in their first month; the range was 55 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (3 of 8) and Building (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Logic, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Tactical; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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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