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How many copies did WILD WEST sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$277–$744 after Steam's cut $503–$1k before Steam's cut
from 41 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 WILD WEST and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including WILD WEST's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.4M–28.1M
best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like WILD WEST

A typical game among these

≈ 4.4M–28.1M copies

≈ $49.7M–$488.0M after Steam's cut

from ~198k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Survival (6 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2004 to 2019, and none of them 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 36 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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