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How many copies did The Wraith of the Galaxy sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–7k
$15k–$39k after Steam's cut $27k–$61k before Steam's cut
from 179 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 Wraith of the Galaxy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Wraith of the Galaxy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29.1M–44.5M
best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like The Wraith of the Galaxy

A typical game among these

≈ 29.1M–44.5M copies

≈ $179.9M–$608.7M after Steam's cut

from ~881k 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 Open World (6 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped
None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about which games were found than about the market.
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 52 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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1.6x vs typical
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