How much revenue did Wee Tanks! make?

$42k–$112k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wee Tanks! sell?

Q: How many copies did Wee Tanks! sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 610 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $42k–$112k after Steam's cut $76k–$172k before Steam's cut; from 610 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 Wee Tanks! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wee Tanks!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.9M–21.0M

best case 39.5M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Wee Tanks!

A typical game among these

≈ 10.9M–21.0M copies

≈ $124.9M–$167.5M after Steam's cut

from ~348k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Story Rich (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: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.1M–48.9M copies, ≈ $496.2M–$1334.2M 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 103k reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (4 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Mythology + Action RPG + Souls-like; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 3 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 79 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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