How much revenue did Wordle 5 make?

$64k–$173k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wordle 5 sell?

Q: How many copies did Wordle 5 sell?

8k to 12k copies, based on its 308 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–12k; $64k–$173k after Steam's cut $117k–$266k before Steam's cut; from 308 reviews (Mixed)

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 Wordle 5 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wordle 5's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–44k

best case 512k (Cyber Manhunt)

Games like Wordle 5

A typical game among these

≈ 25k–44k copies

≈ $47k–$141k after Steam's cut

from ~829 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cyber Manhunt at ≈ 390k–634k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$2.9M 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 536 reviews in their first month; the range was 139 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and Word Game (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry RPG + Hacking; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2026, and 2 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 43 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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