How much revenue did Wandering Sword make?

$7.8M–$21.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wandering Sword sell?

Q: How many copies did Wandering Sword sell?

1.1M to 1.8M copies, based on its 46k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.8M; $7.8M–$21.0M after Steam's cut $14.2M–$32.3M before Steam's cut; from 46k 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 Wandering Sword and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wandering Sword's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 103k–143k

best case 804k (Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion)

Games like Wandering Sword

A typical game among these

≈ 103k–143k copies

≈ $298k–$917k after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion at ≈ 613k–996k copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.2M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 773 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Martial Arts (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Martial Arts + Open World, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Open World + Strategy + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 1 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 38 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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