How much revenue did Word Wise make?

$204–$548 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Word Wise sell?

Q: How many copies did Word Wise sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $204–$548 after Steam's cut $371–$843 before Steam's cut; from 10 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 Word Wise and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Word Wise's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–34k

best case 262k (Scribble It!)

Games like Word Wise

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–34k copies

≈ $40k–$58k after Steam's cut

from ~447 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Scribble It! at ≈ 199k–324k 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 112 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 193.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Word Game (8 of 8) and Spelling (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Word Game + Comedy. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Multiplayer + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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