How much revenue did Evil Wizard make?

$17k–$45k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Evil Wizard sell?

Q: How many copies did Evil Wizard sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 123 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $30k–$69k before Steam's cut; from 123 reviews (Very 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 Evil Wizard and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Evil Wizard's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 305k–2.9M

best case 10.1M (Hades)

Games like Evil Wizard

A typical game among these

≈ 305k–2.9M copies

≈ $2.9M–$48.1M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: Hades at ≈ 7.7M–12.5M copies, ≈ $52.9M–$142.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 273 to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (6 of 8) and Action Roguelike (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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Hades 2020	Est. copies ≈ 7.7M–12.5M 19x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $52.9M–$142.2M after Steam's cut $96.1M–$218.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	310k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-lite
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Hades II 2025	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.0M 7.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $25.3M–$68.0M after Steam's cut $46.0M–$104.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	124k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionRogue-like
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