How much revenue did The Wratch's Den make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Wratch's Den sell?

Q: How many copies did The Wratch's Den sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 72 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut; from 72 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 The Wratch's Den and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Wratch's Den's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–33k

best case 72k (Sheltered 2)

Games like The Wratch's Den

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–33k copies

≈ $46k–$360k after Steam's cut

from ~502 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sheltered 2 at ≈ 55k–90k copies, ≈ $303k–$814k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 264 reviews in their first month; the range was 30 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Colony Sim (8 of 8) and Base-Building (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Resource Management, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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