How much revenue did Spells & Secrets make?

$57k–$153k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spells & Secrets sell?

Q: How many copies did Spells & Secrets sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 334 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $57k–$153k after Steam's cut $103k–$235k before Steam's cut; from 334 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 Spells & Secrets and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spells & Secrets's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 407k–645k

best case 1.9M (PowerWash Simulator)

Games like Spells & Secrets

A typical game among these

≈ 407k–645k copies

≈ $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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 Cozy (4 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: PowerWash Simulator at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $10.0M–$27.0M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 442 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cozy (4 of 8) and Sandbox (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + First-Person, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Multiplayer + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Tiny Glade 2024	Est. copies ≈ 614k–998k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut $4.6M–$10.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BuildingDesign & Illustration
Virtual Cottage 2020	Est. copies ≈ 275k–448k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CozyRelaxing
Shop Titans 2020	Est. copies ≈ 446k–725k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	18k reviews Mostly Positive	IdlerShop Keeper
Townscaper 2021	Est. copies ≈ 537k–872k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $884k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut	$5.99	22k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ExperimentalBuilding
PowerWash Simulator 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.0M–$27.0M after Steam's cut $18.3M–$41.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	59k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualRelaxing
Spirit City: Lofi Sessions 2024	Est. copies ≈ 418k–679k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$11.99	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CozyRelaxing
Little Kitty, Big City 2024	Est. copies ≈ 345k–560k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	14k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsCute
Assemble with Care 2020	Est. copies ≈ 276k–448k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $606k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$7.99	11k reviews Very Positive	CasualIndie