How much revenue did WILD-9 make?

$571–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did WILD-9 sell?

Q: How many copies did WILD-9 sell?

694 to 1k copies, based on its 28 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 694–1k; $571–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 28 reviews (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 WILD-9 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WILD-9's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 260–423

best case 4k (G WARRIOR)

Games like WILD-9

A typical game among these

≈ 260–423 copies

≈ $326–$1k after Steam's cut

from ~11 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: G WARRIOR at ≈ 3k–5k copies, ≈ $4k–$12k 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 6 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 64.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (7 of 8) and Action-Adventure (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Combat Racing, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Arcade + Isometric; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 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).

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