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 the cut; from 123 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Evil Wizard out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Evil Wizard's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 305k–2.8M

best case 10.0M (Hades)

Games like Evil Wizard

The middle of these games

≈ 305k–2.8M copies

≈ $2.9M–$46.8M after Steam's cut

from ~16k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Hades at ≈ 7.6M–12.4M copies, ≈ $52.6M–$141.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 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.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 1 of your 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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